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From: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	pinotj@club-internet.fr, torvalds@osdl.org,
	neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au, manfred@colorfullife.com, akpm@osdl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Oops]  i386 mm/slab.c (cache_flusharray)
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:58:32 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031209235832.GG783@frodo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031209072131.GD24599@lst.de>

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 08:21:32AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:03:22PM +1100, Nathan Scott wrote:
> > [ Christoph, is this failure expected?  I think you/Steve made
> > some changes there to use __GFP_NOFAIL and assume it wont fail?
> > (in 2.4 we do memory allocations differently to better handle
> > failures, but that code was removed...) ]
> 
> It looks like the slab allocator doesn't like __GFP_NOFAIL, we'll
> probably have to revert the XFS memory allocation wrappers to the
> 2.4 versions.
> 

OK, thanks - I'll look into it.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan

  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-09 23:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-09  0:57 Re: [Oops] i386 mm/slab.c (cache_flusharray) pinotj
2003-12-09  2:03 ` Nathan Scott
2003-12-09  7:21   ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-09 23:58     ` Nathan Scott [this message]
2003-12-12 19:00       ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-12 20:07         ` Manfred Spraul
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-04 18:27 pinotj
2003-12-04 18:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-04 19:09   ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-04 21:21     ` Nathan Scott
2003-12-05  7:14       ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-05  9:34         ` Nathan Scott
2003-12-05 14:22           ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-12-05  3:00     ` Nathan Scott
2003-12-05  6:40       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-04 19:19   ` Manfred Spraul
2003-12-04 21:26   ` Nathan Scott
2003-12-03 23:06 pinotj
2003-12-03 23:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-29 17:41 pinotj
2003-12-02  0:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-02  1:37   ` Nathan Scott
2003-12-02  6:44     ` Nathan Scott
2003-12-02 18:05       ` Mike Fedyk
2003-12-02 20:05         ` Nathan Scott
2003-11-27 18:42 pinotj
2003-11-27 18:55 ` Manfred Spraul
2003-12-02  1:03 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-11-25 17:30 pinotj
2003-11-25 22:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-27 18:07   ` Manfred Spraul
2003-11-22  7:47 Re: " pinotj
2003-11-22 10:55 ` Manfred Spraul
2003-11-21 18:12 pinotj
2003-11-21 18:58 ` Manfred Spraul
2003-11-20  1:50 pinotj
2003-11-20  2:09 ` Andrew Morton
2003-11-19 18:19 pinotj
2003-11-20  1:07 ` Andrew Morton

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