linux-kernel - Re: potential regression in ext[34] call to __page

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Message-ID: <20081029154014.GA23643@mit.edu>
Date:	Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:40:14 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Cc:	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...il.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: potential regression in ext[34] call to __page_symlink()?

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 04:25:57AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
> I was leaning towards adding a new AOP_FLAG_ there, usable just by
> filesystem code, and just to tell any helper code to clear __GFP_FS.
> That way callers won't get confused into thinking they can do
> GFP_ATOMIC writes from interrupt context or something ;) (which,
> trust me, somebody will attempt to do if it looks remotely feasible!)

Good point!!

						- Ted

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