From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754447Ab3KYPNq (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:13:46 -0500 Received: from zene.cmpxchg.org ([85.214.230.12]:44198 "EHLO zene.cmpxchg.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753580Ab3KYPNn (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:13:43 -0500 Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:13:39 -0500 From: Johannes Weiner To: Ben Hutchings Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, azurIt , Linus Torvalds , Michal Hocko Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.2 73/87] fs: buffer: move allocation failure loop into the allocator Message-ID: <20131125151339.GS3556@cmpxchg.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Ben, 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 know. > > ------------------ > > From: Johannes Weiner > > commit 84235de394d9775bfaa7fa9762a59d91fef0c1fc upstream. > > Buffer allocation has a very crude indefinite loop around waking the > flusher threads and performing global NOFS direct reclaim because it can > not handle allocation failures. 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.