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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] fs: Perform writebacks under memalloc_nofs
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On Wed 21-03-18 17:44:27, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:
> From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com>
> 
> writebacks can recurse into itself under low memory situations.
> Set memalloc_nofs_save() in order to make sure it does not
> recurse.

How? We are not doing writeback from the direct reclaim context.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs