On Friday 31 October 2008 00:38, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Theodore Tso wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 03:36:33PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > >> Sorry for the silence, this is a nice bug you've found :) > >> > >> I'll look into it ... > > > > You may want to take a quick look at this thread: > > > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/28/413 > > > > - Ted > > I thought about that, but at least at first glance I don't see how the > gfp mask change would cause this behavior...? At least, I don't think > we're seeing recursion back into the filesystem... but I'll ponder that. That's definitely a bug which I'll have to fix for 2.6.28, but I agree it's unlikely to recurse frequently like this (would only happen under high memory pressure, and only when writeout from page reclaim happens). > (Also, Arthur reports seeing this as long ago as 2.6.9...) OK, well that would confirm it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
