Re: potential regression in ext[34] call to __page_symlink()?

From: Theodore Tso
Date: Wed Oct 29 2008 - 11:40:32 EST


On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 04:25:57AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> I was leaning towards adding a new AOP_FLAG_ there, usable just by
> filesystem code, and just to tell any helper code to clear __GFP_FS.
> That way callers won't get confused into thinking they can do
> GFP_ATOMIC writes from interrupt context or something ;) (which,
> trust me, somebody will attempt to do if it looks remotely feasible!)

Good point!!

- Ted

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