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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:37:24 +0100 From: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu> Cc: Naoto Kobayashi <naoto.kobayashi4c@...il.com>, adilger.kernel@...ger.ca, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] ext4: Rename ext4_kvmalloc() to ext4_kvmalloc_nofs() and drop its flags argument On Mon 13-01-20 17:32:37, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 05:05:22PM +0900, Naoto Kobayashi wrote: > > Rename ext4_kvmalloc() to ext4_kvmalloc_nofs() and drop > > its flags argument, because ext4_kvmalloc() callers must be > > under GFP_NOFS (otherwise, they should use generic kvmalloc() > > helper function). > > > > Signed-off-by: Naoto Kobayashi <naoto.kobayashi4c@...il.com> > > Thanks, applied. Ted, I don't think this patch is needed at all - see my email [1]. Sadly Naoto didn't reply to my question whether he really saw any deadlock / lockdep splat or whether it was just a theoretical concern he had... Honza [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ext4/20200109100007.GC27035@quack2.suse.cz -- Jan Kara <jack@...e.com> SUSE Labs, CR
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