Re: [git patch] fuse fixes

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> This function is called from everywhere, and so, it looks like it should 
> use SLAB_NOFS rather than SLAB_KERNEL.  I would audit every GFP_KERNEL 
> and SLAB_KERNEL usage, and consider replacing with SLAB_NOFS or GFP_NOFS.

GFP_NOFS doesn't make much sense, since mm never calls back into FUSE
anyway: FUSE writes through the page-cache, and hence never dirties
any pages.

I'll add a comment to fuse_request_alloc().

Thanks,
Miklos
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