linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 2/3] jbd2 : Fix journal start by passing a parameter to specify if the caller can deal with ENOMEM

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Date:	Wed, 25 May 2011 00:47:06 -0700
From:	Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@...il.com>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
CC:	tytso@....edu, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] jbd2 : Fix journal start by passing a parameter to
 specify if the caller can deal with ENOMEM

On 05/25/2011 12:44 AM, Jan Kara wrote:
> This patch is OK as such but as I wrote in a reply to a later patch in
> the series, you also need to pass 'errok' to start_this_handle() instead of
> gfp_mask as well. Then in start_this_handle() you can use 'errok' to decide
> whether we should retry the allocation or not instead of gfp_mask. And just
> call kzalloc in start_this_handle() with GFP_NOFS... Thanks.

Hi Jan,

   ok.. I will do it as a separate patch.

-- 
Thanks -
Manish
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