Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:12:01 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: avoid livelock on !__GFP_FS allocations |
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On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, David Rientjes wrote:
> Ok, so __GFP_NORETRY it is. Just make sure that when > pm_restrict_gfp_mask() masks off __GFP_IO and __GFP_FS that it also sets > __GFP_NORETRY even though the name of the function no longer seems > appropriate anymore. >
Or, rather, when pm_restrict_gfp_mask() clears __GFP_IO and __GFP_FS that it also has the same behavior as __GFP_NORETRY in should_alloc_retry() by setting a variable in file scope.
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