[RFC 5/8] ext4: Do not fail journal due to block allocator

2015-08-05 Thread mhocko
From: Michal Hocko mho...@suse.com Since mm: page_alloc: do not lock up GFP_NOFS allocations upon OOM memory allocator doesn't endlessly loop to satisfy low-order allocations and instead fails them to allow callers to handle them gracefully. Some of the callers are not yet prepared for this

Re: [RFC 5/8] ext4: Do not fail journal due to block allocator

2015-08-05 Thread Jan Kara
On Wed 05-08-15 11:51:21, mho...@kernel.org wrote: From: Michal Hocko mho...@suse.com Since mm: page_alloc: do not lock up GFP_NOFS allocations upon OOM memory allocator doesn't endlessly loop to satisfy low-order allocations and instead fails them to allow callers to handle them gracefully.