linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] doc: document scope NOFS, NOIO APIs

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Message-ID: <7c5d8afb-563f-43fd-50ef-d532550983c7@suse.com>
Date:   Mon, 28 May 2018 10:21:00 +0300
From:   Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@...e.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: document scope NOFS, NOIO APIs



On 25.05.2018 10:52, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 24-05-18 09:37:18, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On 05/24/2018 04:43 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> [...]
>>> +The traditional way to avoid this deadlock problem is to clear __GFP_FS
>>> +resp. __GFP_IO (note the later implies clearing the first as well) in
>>
>>                             latter
> 
> ?
> No I really meant that clearing __GFP_IO implies __GFP_FS clearing
Sorry to barge in like that, but Randy is right.

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" of, relating to, or being the second of two groups or things or the
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