On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 14:26 -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > 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.
Oh, I see your patch now. You mean use GFP_NOFS instead of GFP_KERNEL. :-) OK then. > 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/
