Re: [PATCH 3.2 73/87] fs: buffer: move allocation failure loop intothe allocator

[Johannes Weiner]

Hi Ben,

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 01:44:29PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 3.2.53-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> commit 84235de394d9775bfaa7fa9762a59d91fef0c1fc upstream.
> 
> Buffer allocation has a very crude indefinite loop around waking the
> flusher threads and performing global NOFS direct reclaim because it can
> not handle allocation failures.

Please don't apply this, it's part of a bigger series and was only
tagged as a reminder.  I'll send the full series to stable when the
current cgroup instabilities are ironed out, just to be sure these
patches are not the problem.
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