Re: [Oops] i386 mm/slab.c (cache_flusharray)

[Nathan Scott]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 08:21:32AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:03:22PM +1100, Nathan Scott wrote:
> > [ Christoph, is this failure expected?  I think you/Steve made
> > some changes there to use __GFP_NOFAIL and assume it wont fail?
> > (in 2.4 we do memory allocations differently to better handle
> > failures, but that code was removed...) ]
> 
> It looks like the slab allocator doesn't like __GFP_NOFAIL, we'll
> probably have to revert the XFS memory allocation wrappers to the
> 2.4 versions.
> 

OK, thanks - I'll look into it.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan
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