Re: btrfs crash when low on memory.

[Josef Bacik]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 07:31:11AM -0700, Ahmet Inan wrote:
> > Yeah we have a lot of
> >
> > ptr = kmalloc();
> > BUG_ON(ptr);
> >
> > everywhere.  I'll fix this one up but I really need to sit down and go through
> > all of them and make sure we do the right thing in all these places.  Thanks,
> 
> But what would be the right thing to do when you got no memory?
> Spinlock until you can kmalloc? Pre-reserve some memory?
>

Return ENOMEM?  We have a way to abort transactions now, if it's in a horrible
of enough spot we can just abort the transaction and let the user deal with the
aftermath, it's nicer than panicing.  Thanks,

Josef 
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