On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 04:04:59PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 02:03:36PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > > xfs_file_*_read holds an inode lock while calling a generic 'read' > > function. These functions perform read-ahead and are quite likely to > > allocate memory. > > Yes, that's what reading data from disk requires. > > > So set PF_FSTRANS to ensure they avoid __GFP_FS and so don't recurse > > into a filesystem to free memory. > > We already have that protection via the
Oops, stray paste. Ignore that comment. -Dave. -- Dave Chinner da...@fromorbit.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
