On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:07:04PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> writes: ... > > Also, if you're going to keep this state in memory, what happens if > > the inode gets pushed out of memory? > > You lose the error, just like you do today with any other IO error. > > We had a lot of discussions on this when the memory error handling > was originally introduced, that was the conclusuion. > > I don't think a special panic knob for this makes sense either. > We already have multiple panic knobs for memory errors, that > can be used. Yes. I understand that adding a new knob is not good. So this patch uses the existing ext4 knob without adding new one. Thanks, Naoya -- 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>