Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:44:50 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: Pagecache: find_or_create_page does not call a proper page allocator function |
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > I would say that the filesystem is broke if it has such expectations > > regardless of page migration. > > Others disagree ;) > > The filesystem has *told* the core kernel what its allocation constraints > are by setting up mapping_gfp_mask(). If the core kernel stops honouring > that request then it is core kernel which is broken.
Then I think we should disable page migration for allocations that do not allow access to the policy zone. That would fix it.
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