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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
