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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC] ext4: use __GFP_NOFAIL in ext4_free_blocks()
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 08:09:12PM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> This might be unexpected but pages allocated for sbi->s_buddy_cache are
> charged to current memory cgroup. So, GFP_NOFS allocation could fail if
> current task has been killed by OOM or if current memory cgroup has no
> free memory left. Block allocator cannot handle such failures here yet.
>
> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>

Thanks, applied.

- Ted

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