Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 28 Sep 2001 01:37:30 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: highmem deadlock fix [was Re: VM in 2.4.10(+tweaks) vs. 2.4.9-ac14/15(+stuff)] |
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On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 04:18:58PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > Thinking about it, I think GFP_NOIO also implies "we must not wait for > > other buffers", because that could deadlock for _other_ things too, like > > loop and NBD (which use NOIO to make sure that they don't recurse - but > > that should also imply not waiting for themselves). The GFP_xxx approach > > should fix those deadlocks too. > > Ie the patch would be something like the attached..
well this approch is much less finegrined... but yes, it would fix the deadlock.
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