Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Nov 2015 10:02:32 +1100 | From | Dave Chinner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 06/10] [vfs] don't put symlink bodies in pagecache into highmem |
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On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 11:00:42PM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> > > kmap() in page_follow_link_light() needed to go - allowing to hold > an arbitrary number of kmaps for long is a great way to deadlocking > the system. > > new helper (inode_nohigh(inode)) needs to be used for pagecache
inode_nohighmem() seems like a better name as it's self-documenting at the call site.
Cheers,
Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com
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