Why does xfsdump encounter "WARNING: could not get list of non-root attributes for nondir ino nnnn: Cannot allocate memory (12)"?

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Wed Jan 11 04:29:49 CST 2012


On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 09:14:27PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Which has lead to several implementations of duplicated
> functionality like:
> 
> 	- ext4_kvmalloc/ext4_kvfree
> 	- drm_malloc_ab/drm_calloc_large/drm_free_large
> 	- ceph_buffer_new/ceph_buffer_release
> 	- gfs2_alloc_sort_buffer/gfs2_free_sort_buffer
> 	- __ntfs_malloc/ntfs_free
> 
> I don't think adding another two sets of identical wrappers (or open
> coding it) is the right thing given that it is a repeating pattern.

Give it a try, I'm not against it myself.




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