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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] udf: reduce stack usage of udf_get_filename
On Tue 18-11-08 16:19:38, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:02:45 +0100
> Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > + filename = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ustr), GFP_NOFS);
>
> I suspect that we could have used the superior GFP_KERNEL everywhere in
> both these patches. But I'll let Jan worry about that ;)
Definitely not in the second case - that one is called from inside
readdir, lookup and symlink resolution code so that could lead to deadlocks
IMHO.
Regarding the first case in process_sequence, that is called only from
udf_fill_super(). So there it might be safe to use GFP_KERNEL but I'm not
quite sure either... So I'd leave GFP_NOFS there.

Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR


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