Re: [PATCH] mm: avoid livelock on !__GFP_FS allocations

[David Rientjes]

On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, David Rientjes wrote:

> Ok, so __GFP_NORETRY it is.  Just make sure that when 
> pm_restrict_gfp_mask() masks off __GFP_IO and __GFP_FS that it also sets 
> __GFP_NORETRY even though the name of the function no longer seems 
> appropriate anymore.
> 

Or, rather, when pm_restrict_gfp_mask() clears __GFP_IO and __GFP_FS that 
it also has the same behavior as __GFP_NORETRY in should_alloc_retry() by 
setting a variable in file scope.
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