linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.2 73/87] fs: buffer: move allocation failure loop into the allocator

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Message-ID: <20131125151339.GS3556@cmpxchg.org>
Date:	Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:13:39 -0500
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, azurIt <azurit@...ox.sk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.2 73/87] fs: buffer: move allocation failure loop into
 the allocator

Hi Ben,

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 01:44:29PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 3.2.53-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> 
> commit 84235de394d9775bfaa7fa9762a59d91fef0c1fc upstream.
> 
> Buffer allocation has a very crude indefinite loop around waking the
> flusher threads and performing global NOFS direct reclaim because it can
> not handle allocation failures.

Please don't apply this, it's part of a bigger series and was only
tagged as a reminder.  I'll send the full series to stable when the
current cgroup instabilities are ironed out, just to be sure these
patches are not the problem.
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