On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 12:15 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote: > Here is the patch to clean up __GFP_NOFAIL flag in jbd/jbd2. In all > cases except one handles memory allocation failure so I get rid of those > GFP_NOFAIL flags. > > Also, shouldn't we use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_NOFS flag for kmalloc > in jbd/jbd2? I will send a separate patch to cleanup that. No. GFP_NOFS avoids deadlock. It prevents the allocation from making recursive calls back into the file system that could end up blocking on jbd code. Shaggy -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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