linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] use GFP_NOFS in kernel

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Date:	Fri, 01 May 2009 14:11:34 -0400
From:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	fengguang.wu@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, mpm@...enic.com, clameter@....com,
	mingo@...e.hu, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use GFP_NOFS in kernel_event()

On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 14:10 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:19:33 -0400
> Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Somebody was going to fix this for us via lockdep annotation.
> > > 
> > > <adds randomly-chosen cc>
> > 
> > I really didn't forget this, but I can't figure out how to recreate it,
> > so I don't know if my logic in the patch is sound.  The patch certainly
> > will shut up the complaint.
> 
> Do you think we should merge the GFP_NOFS workaround for 2.6.30 and
> fix all up nicely for 2.6.31?

I'm all for it for 2.6.30, although the patch really should have been
the one that gets the audit use case too at 

>>From me on Mar 18 Subject [PATCH] make inotify event handles use
GFP_NOFS

http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/18/310



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