Hi, these two patches were sent as a part of a larger RFC which aims at allowing GFP_NOFS allocations to fail to help sort out memory reclaim issues bound to the current behavior (http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=143876830616538&w=2).
It is clear that move to the GFP_NOFS behavior change is a long term plan but these patches should be good enough even with that change in place. It also seems that Chris wasn't opposed and would be willing to take them http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=143991792427165&w=2 so here we come. I have rephrased the changeslogs to not refer to the patch which changes the NOFS behavior. Just to clarify. These two patches allowed my particular testcase (mentioned in the cover referenced above) to survive it doesn't mean that the failing GFP_NOFS are OK now. I have seen some other places where GFP_NOFS allocation is followed by BUG_ON(ALLOC_FAILED). I have not encountered them though. Let me know if you would prefer other changes. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
