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SubjectRe: [patch?] Re: Do ramdisk exec's map direct to buffer cache?
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Mike Galbraith wrote:

>I keep running into a deadlock with it looping forever trying to
>free memory, triggered by blocking in getblk->refill_freelist->..
>try_to_free_buffers->sync_page_buffers->zzzzz (kflushd runs forever).

That's a bug in sync_page_buffers. getblk is using GFP_BUFFER for
allocations, so sync_page_buffers shouldn't run ll_rw_block since __GFP_IO
isn't set.

Andrea


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