On Fri 24-11-17 22:26:03, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > Michal Hocko wrote: > > As already pointed out, I do not think this is worth it. This function > > is no different than many others which need error handling. The system > > will work suboptimally when the shrinker is missing, no question about > > that, but there is no immediate blow up otherwise. It is not all that > > hard to find all those places and fix them up. We do not have hundreds > > of them... > > The system might blow up after two years of uptime. For enterprise systems > which try to avoid reboots as much as possible, it is important to fix > known bugs before deploying. And how exactly __must_check help here? Seriously, if you really _care_ then make sure to fix those rather than add dubious code and keep arguing over it. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>