Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 May 2009 13:28:18 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] use GFP_NOFS in kernel_event() |
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On Fri, 01 May 2009 14:11:34 -0400 Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 14:10 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:19:33 -0400 > > Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > > Somebody was going to fix this for us via lockdep annotation. > > > > > > > > <adds randomly-chosen cc> > > > > > > I really didn't forget this, but I can't figure out how to recreate it, > > > so I don't know if my logic in the patch is sound. The patch certainly > > > will shut up the complaint. > > > > Do you think we should merge the GFP_NOFS workaround for 2.6.30 and > > fix all up nicely for 2.6.31? > > I'm all for it for 2.6.30
OK.
> although the patch really should have been > the one that gets the audit use case too at > > >From me on Mar 18 Subject [PATCH] make inotify event handles use > GFP_NOFS > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/18/310
I queued that as an incremental to Wu Fengguang's patch, because inotify-use-gfp_nofs-in-kernel_event-to-work-around-a-lockdep-false-positive.patch has a longer changelog ;)
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