On mer, 2005-04-06 at 09:02 -0700, Mike Christie wrote: > Christophe Varoqui wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:32:23PM +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > > > >>I appear to have almost succeeded in squeezing 0.4.4-pre8 into > >>RHEL4 U1, but I doubt I'll be allowed any more updates now except > >>for severe bugs. > >> > > > > Just to let you you know what I think is still needed before 0.4.4 : > > > > o memory allocation error paths audit (mostly done in pre9) > > The pathcheckers use sgio, right? The block layer sg io code does some > allocations with GFP_KERNEL (bio_copy_user and bio_map_user for > example), so if you are relying on that path for failback I think you > will be in trouble. > Indeed. Do you have suggestions to work around this issue ? Regards, -- christophe varoqui <christophe.varoqui@xxxxxxx>
