Re: GFS2 and DLM

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Jun 23 2006 - 10:48:08 EST


On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 01:17:13PM +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Linus, Andrew suggested to me to send this pull request to you directly.
> Please consider merging the GFS2 filesystem and DLM from (they are both
> in the same tree for ease of testing):

The code uses GFP_NOFAIL for slab allocator calls. It's been pointed out
here numerous times that this can't work. Andrew, what about adding
a check to slab.c to bail out if someone passes it?

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