On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Roger Larsson wrote:
> One approach could be: only goto try_again if GFP_IO is set.
> And alloc one page from the critical memory pool.
> I will try this.
i'll try this too.
Ingo
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On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Roger Larsson wrote:
> * Won't we end up in an infinite loop?
FYI, i still see a rare deadlock, even under test9-pre6.
Ingo
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Hi,
What will happen in this scenario:
a process
* grabs a fs semaphore
* needs some buffers to do IO, calls __alloc_pages(GFP_BUFFER)
Suppose the system is MIN on free mem, has no inactive_clean pages.
We will end up around line 446 in pages_alloc.c and issue a
try_to_free_pages(...). Then goto
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