linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] dio: add a mempool for the unaligned block structures

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Date:	Mon, 08 Nov 2010 10:40:37 -0500
From:	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] dio: add a mempool for the unaligned block structures

Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com> writes:

> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>
>
> We need the zero block tracking structure allocation to succeed.
> Silently failing and potentially allowing data corruption is not an
> option. Add a mempool to ensure this allocation will always succeed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>

Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
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