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* [PATCH 0/9] xfs: make buffer functions return error codes
@ 2020-01-15 17:03 Darrick J. Wong
  2020-01-15 17:03 ` [PATCH 1/9] xfs: make xfs_buf_alloc return an error code Darrick J. Wong
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From: Darrick J. Wong @ 2020-01-15 17:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: darrick.wong; +Cc: linux-xfs, hch

Hi all,

Let's fix all the xfs read/get buffer functions to return the usual
integer error codes and pass the buffer pointer as a out-argument.  This
makes it so that we can return useful error output instead of making
callers infer ENOMEM or EAGAIN or whatever other reality they crave from
the NULL pointer that they get when things don't go perfectly.

FWIW, all XBF_TRYLOCK callers must now trigger retries if they receive
EAGAIN.  This may lead to a slight behavioral change in that TRYLOCK
callers will no longer retry for things like ENOMEM, though I didn't see
any obvious changes in user-visible behavior when running fstests.

This has been lightly tested with fstests.  Enjoy!
Comments and questions are, as always, welcome.

--D

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2020-01-15 17:03 [PATCH 0/9] xfs: make buffer functions return error codes Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-15 17:03 ` [PATCH 1/9] xfs: make xfs_buf_alloc return an error code Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-16 16:13   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-15 17:03 ` [PATCH 2/9] xfs: make xfs_buf_read " Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-16 16:15   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-16 22:30     ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-15 17:03 ` [PATCH 3/9] xfs: make xfs_buf_get " Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-16 16:16   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-16 22:30     ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-15 17:04 ` [PATCH 4/9] xfs: make xfs_buf_get_uncached " Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-16 16:17   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-15 17:04 ` [PATCH 5/9] xfs: make xfs_buf_read_map " Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-16 16:21   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-16 23:26     ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-15 17:04 ` [PATCH 6/9] xfs: make xfs_buf_get_map " Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-16 16:28   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-16 22:33     ` Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-15 17:04 ` [PATCH 7/9] xfs: make xfs_trans_get_buf_map " Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-16 16:29   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-15 17:04 ` [PATCH 8/9] xfs: make xfs_trans_get_buf " Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-16 16:31   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-15 17:04 ` [PATCH 9/9] xfs: make xfs_btree_get_buf functions " Darrick J. Wong
2020-01-16 16:33   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-16 16:43     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-16 22:40     ` Darrick J. Wong

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