Re: [PATCH 2/3] inotify: do not BUG on idr entries at inotifydestruction

[Eric Paris]

On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 12:23 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Eric Paris wrote:
> > 
> > You suspect correctly.  :(  I'll fix in my tree before I request a
> > pull....
> 
> Can you change the WARN() to a WARN_ONCE() too. 
> 
> Generally, we prefer the "ONCE" variant if there isn't some intrisic 
> reason why we'd want to know about each event. If there is some load that 
> triggers this, do you care about _how_many_times_ it happens, or about the 
> fact that it happens in the first place? In this case, I think it's the 
> "happens in the first place" case - once you see it a single time, the 
> rest of the reports aren't that interesting.
> 
> And using the ONCE thing means that we know it's not going to spam the 
> logs.

Fixed.

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