Re: [PATCH 6/8] Use SLAB_PANIC when creating critical slab cache

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Wright wrote:
> * Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>
> > Chris,
> >
> >         I think somebody proposed this in the past and it was refused
> > because we better get rid of the panics and return an error, propagate
> > it and refuse to load the module, better have the machine still alive
> > but without networking than panic it.
>
>
> Sounds good too.  Part of my thinking was that these patches would be a
> good chance to review if these are necessarily panic conditions.  What was
> the plan on error return, since I expect some caches are interdependent?

I lost track, perhaps we should push this to the janitor mailing list?

:-)

- Arnaldo