Re: [PATCH] make inotify event handles use GFP_NOFS

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 14:26 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:27:32 -0400
> Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I think this is a bandaide to shut up lockdep.  I could either figure
> > out lockdep classes and figure out how to reclassify inotify locks since
> > I believe Nick is correct when he says inotify watches pin the inode in
> > core so memory pressure can't evict it.
> 
> It's pretty sad to degrading the strength of the memory allocation just
> to squish a lockdep report.

Yeah, I agree, its the wrong thing to do. lockdep annotations really
aren't that hard -- also, you could also talk me through it.

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