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

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Message-ID: <1385438057.23855.36.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 26 Nov 2013 03:54:17 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
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

On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 10:13 -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> 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.

OK, I'll drop this.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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