On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 02:12:06PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Minor edits (not worth a resubmit by itself):
Thanks, Andreas ! I will take care of these comments in the next
submission.
Regards,
Amit Arora
>
> On Dec 19, 2006 16:35 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
> > + /* ext4_can_exte
Andrew Morton wrote:
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:58:12 -0800
Suzuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* Fix the kmalloc flags used from within ext3, when we have an active journal
handle
If we do a kmalloc with GFP_KERNEL on system running low on memory,
with an active journal handle, we might
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:58:12 -0800
Suzuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Fix the kmalloc flags used from within ext3, when we have an active journal
> handle
>
> If we do a kmalloc with GFP_KERNEL on system running low on memory,
> with an active journal handle, we might end up in cleanin
Hi,
The attached patch converts the GFP mask for kmallocs within ext3 to
GFP_NOFS whenever they are called with an active journal handle.
More description in the patch.
Comments ?
Thanks,
Suzuki
Linux Technology Center
IBM Systems & Technology Labs.
* Fix the kmalloc flags used from within
Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2006 17:12 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
>> I wrote a simple tool to test these patches. The tool takes four
>> arguments:
>>
>> * command: It may have either of the two values - "prealloc" or "write"
>> * filename: This is the filename with relative path
>> * offs
On Dec 19, 2006 17:12 +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
> I wrote a simple tool to test these patches. The tool takes four
> arguments:
>
> * command: It may have either of the two values - "prealloc" or "write"
> * filename: This is the filename with relative path
> * offset: The offset within the fil
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 05:12:51PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
> I also tried some random preallocation and write operations. They seem
> to work fine. There is a patch also ready for e2fsprogs utils to
> recognize uninitialized extents, which I used to verify the results of
> the above testcases.
I wrote a simple tool to test these patches. The tool takes four
arguments:
* command: It may have either of the two values - "prealloc" or "write"
* filename: This is the filename with relative path
* offset: The offset within the file from where the preallocation, or
the write sh
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 06:05:28PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
> --- linux-2.6.19.prealloc.orig/fs/ext4/ioctl.c2006-12-15
> 16:44:35.0 +0530
> +++ linux-2.6.19.prealloc/fs/ext4/ioctl.c 2006-12-15 17:47:00.0
> +0530
:
:
> + handle=ext4_journal_start(inode,
>
