Re: [PATCH] Altix I/O code cleanup

[Jes Sorensen]

>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Christoph> Of course - but that's not that point.  You have to handle
Christoph> an out of memory situtation propery because it may happen
Christoph> all the time - you should not panic at all.  The
Christoph> ASSERT_ALWAYS just confuses automatic checker tools that
Christoph> help to find such conditions.

Again,

>From a purely theoretical standpoint as I don't remember the code in
question's situation, this again depends on where in the codepath you
hit this. If you don't get your memory for certain key data structures
early on, there's really very little you can do but panic().

Jes
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