linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Fixes for FS-Cache/CacheFiles

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Date:	Wed, 17 Sep 2014 22:37:48 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
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	milosz@...in.com, neilb@...e.de, linux-cachefs@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Fixes for FS-Cache/CacheFiles

David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:

> Could you pull these fixes for FS-Cache and Cachefiles:
> 
>  (1) Put a timeout in releasepage() to deal with a recursive hang between the
>      memory allocator, writeback, ext4 and fscache under memory pressure.
> 
>  (2) Fix a pair of refcount bugs in the fscache error handling.
> 
>  (3) Remove a couple of unused pagevecs.  This could be punted to -next if
>      you'd rather.

Please don't pull them just at the moment.  I've spotted a bug in one of them.

David
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