| Date | Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:13:39 -0500 | From | Johannes Weiner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3.2 73/87] fs: buffer: move allocation failure loop into the allocator |
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Hi Ben,
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 01:44:29PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > 3.2.53-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > ------------------ > > From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> > > commit 84235de394d9775bfaa7fa9762a59d91fef0c1fc upstream. > > Buffer allocation has a very crude indefinite loop around waking the > flusher threads and performing global NOFS direct reclaim because it can > not handle allocation failures.
Please don't apply this, it's part of a bigger series and was only tagged as a reminder. I'll send the full series to stable when the current cgroup instabilities are ironed out, just to be sure these patches are not the problem.
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