Re: [PATCH 4.9 75/88] libceph: force GFP_NOIO for socket allocations

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Wed Mar 29 2017 - 04:11:24 EST


On Tue 28-03-17 14:31:30, Greg KH wrote:
> 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

Greg, please hold on with this backport. I would like to get
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170328124312.GE18241@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx resolved.
So far I believe the patch is simply not needed. I might be wrong but I
would like to hear the explanation first. Using NOIO, NOFS context is
misunderstodd very often and I suspect this is the case here as well.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs