Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: PF_MEMALLOC in 2.6 | Date | Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:59:02 +0200 |
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Am Donnerstag, 19. August 2004 08:55 schrieb Pete Zaitcev: > The PF_MEMALLOC is required on usb-storage threads in 2.4, because ext3 > will deadlock and otherwise misbehave when it's trying to write out > dirty pages under memory pressure.
Can you tell where it hangs? 2.6 passes GFP_NOIO around. If we have an error about that somewhere we need to find it because it may also affect the error handlers which do not operate in that context.
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