Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: make use of sb_getblk_gfp

[Nikolay Borisov]

On 07/02/2015 09:14 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 09:26:49AM +0300, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
>> Switch ext4 to using sb_getblk_gfp with GFP_NOFS added, this fixes
>> possible deadlocks in the page writeback path.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> I've added this to the ext4.git tree, thanks.
> 
> 						- Ted

Thanks!

Just a question that popped to my mind after discussing with a colleague
- Is GFP_NOFS enough here or should it be GFP_NOIO? Presumably the
latter is a stronger guarantee that we are not going to hit any
fs/writeback related code?

Nikolay
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