Re: [PATCH] bcache: Fix a shrinker deadlock

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Sat Aug 31 2013 - 00:20:26 EST


On Fri, Aug 30 2013, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> GFP_NOIO means we could be getting called recursively - mca_alloc() ->
> mca_data_alloc() - definitely can't use mutex_lock(bucket_lock) then.
> Whoops.

Kent, can you provide and updated repo with the pending patches? There's
been some churn here lately (and good fixes), would like to ensure I
don't miss anything.

--
Jens Axboe

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