linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] btrfs: ENOMEM bugfixes

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Date:	Fri, 13 Mar 2015 12:43:42 -0700
From:	Omar Sandoval <osandov@...ndov.com>
To:	dsterba@...e.cz, Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
	Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] btrfs: ENOMEM bugfixes

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 12:04:30PM +0100, David Sterba wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 09:40:17PM -0700, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> > Ping. For anyone following along, it looks like commit cc87317726f8
> > ("mm: page_alloc: revert inadvertent !__GFP_FS retry behavior change")
> > reverted the commit that exposed these bugs. Josef said he was okay with
> > taking these, will they make it to an upcoming -rc soon?
> 
> Upcoming yes, but based on my experience with pushing patches that are
> not really regressions in late rc's it's unlikely for 4.1.

Ok, seeing as these bugs are going to be really hard to trigger now that
the old GFP_FS behavior has been restored, I'm fine with waiting for the
next merge window.

Thank you!
-- 
Omar
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