From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752809Ab3KZDyU (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Nov 2013 22:54:20 -0500 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:32944 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751119Ab3KZDyT (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Nov 2013 22:54:19 -0500 Message-ID: <1385438057.23855.36.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.2 73/87] fs: buffer: move allocation failure loop into the allocator From: Ben Hutchings To: Johannes Weiner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, azurIt , Linus Torvalds , Michal Hocko Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 03:54:17 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20131125151339.GS3556@cmpxchg.org> References: <20131125151339.GS3556@cmpxchg.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-xQCGXXfKzwhoSZUuYrRK" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.8.5-2+b1 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.4.212 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-xQCGXXfKzwhoSZUuYrRK Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 10:13 -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote: > Hi Ben, >=20 > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 01:44:29PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > 3.2.53-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me k= now. > >=20 > > ------------------ > >=20 > > From: Johannes Weiner > >=20 > > commit 84235de394d9775bfaa7fa9762a59d91fef0c1fc upstream. > >=20 > > Buffer allocation has a very crude indefinite loop around waking the > > flusher threads and performing global NOFS direct reclaim because it ca= n > > not handle allocation failures. >=20 > Please don't apply this, it's part of a bigger series and was only > tagged as a reminder. I'll send the full series to stable when the > current cgroup instabilities are ironed out, just to be sure these > patches are not the problem. OK, I'll drop this. Ben. --=20 Ben Hutchings Usenet is essentially a HUGE group of people passing notes in class. - Rachel Kadel, `A Quick Guide to Newsgroup Etiquette= ' --=-xQCGXXfKzwhoSZUuYrRK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUAUpQbaee/yOyVhhEJAQpd5g/9F/stnJhlloGudUPDQAdTR5X5IbNTgDLQ z761Y4H6V/7HTSkW2pOguMozIwx5PArAycXnMJBesqmJ9RNxgdDAalTuTVrD2VTb hmwzJmrwuTcOlLIdOF6s4Ybv8LM9zr7Q/9dGAp3xWAffCLKjyFStmHsJOWEknmzZ 0FZpHVizyYhcPQMq5m+neUDjMuizNcLHX4qiVjeHEhbQm3IKxIBlac+mMUrTnFsv l+P/wMAS4G98ZVvks6RmScBP+t27CanuuSG+jHnmZv9iS2U+jAo1qeJsPLzve/7a djZZ5rdXCIRtdDKC4tV7OqY+zcDWyhrZwP68LYCcha22vn8R3AKZUR8pVulMgSAX gBwaPlBPHmuD58z3p4B+H5imhnTs9CKngDJfree2phlS88H03UUrdUJBsq2VBqx4 QJ603/Hin7kY3XguruyZBMJWC7POmTdwgPIGHABf+GyQioV+msY3wR0Kw74DEqYV t7wXVqAgTsjoKwjkFvWNydwTlJhN1gUihrqCNitoFOFJ1bqNRBMWh9EgllMtssDb +/jk2LgptUgRcf4MQcQ5xItztH2u2RRgZiRegBzcK+ee9fCf7Kd7yT67FTOjAf4P TMb6g5axSEjmq6ZggdU7tqyFkx5ph4hM0HOqF3NM7yru7RkUtAVILBy4uCMefToO Nhz+zEljcXA= =kfSr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-xQCGXXfKzwhoSZUuYrRK--