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| From | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC] ext4: use __GFP_NOFAIL in ext4_free_blocks() |
| Date | 2016-03-13 22:40 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <rclTX-2N8-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <r5L6N-7D3-5@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
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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Re: [PATCH RFC] ext4: use __GFP_NOFAIL in ext4_free_blocks() Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2016-03-13 22:40 +0100
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