Re: [PATCH] mm,vmscan: Use accurate values for zone_reclaimable() checks

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 22 Oct 2015, Tetsuo Handa wrote:

> The problem would be that the "struct task_struct" to execute vmstat_update
> job does not exist, and will not be able to create one on demand because we
> are stuck at __GFP_WAIT allocation. Therefore adding a dedicated kernel
> thread for vmstat_update job would work. But ...

Yuck. Can someone please get this major screwup out of the work queue
subsystem? Tejun?

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