Re: [RFC 7/8] btrfs: Prevent from early transaction abort

On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 11:51:23AM +0200, mho...@kernel.org wrote: > From: Michal Hocko ... > Fix this by reintroducing the no-fail behavior of this allocation path > with the explicit __GFP_NOFAIL. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: David Sterba -- To unsubscribe from this list:

[RFC 7/8] btrfs: Prevent from early transaction abort

From: Michal Hocko Btrfs relies on GFP_NOFS allocation when commiting the transaction but since "mm: page_alloc: do not lock up GFP_NOFS allocations upon OOM" those allocations are allowed to fail which can lead to a pre-mature transaction abort: [ 55.328093] Call Trace: [ 55.328890] []

[RFC 7/8] btrfs: Prevent from early transaction abort

From: Michal Hocko mho...@suse.com Btrfs relies on GFP_NOFS allocation when commiting the transaction but since mm: page_alloc: do not lock up GFP_NOFS allocations upon OOM those allocations are allowed to fail which can lead to a pre-mature transaction abort: [ 55.328093] Call Trace: [

Re: [RFC 7/8] btrfs: Prevent from early transaction abort

On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 11:51:23AM +0200, mho...@kernel.org wrote: From: Michal Hocko mho...@suse.com ... Fix this by reintroducing the no-fail behavior of this allocation path with the explicit __GFP_NOFAIL. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko mho...@suse.com Reviewed-by: David Sterba