On Wed 27-04-16 13:54:35, Michal Hocko wrote: > From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> > Ups missed Dave's note about: > GFP_NOFS context is used for the following 4 reasons currently > - to prevent from deadlocks when the lock held by the allocation > context would be needed during the memory reclaim > - to prevent from stack overflows during the reclaim because > the allocation is performed from a deep context already > - to prevent lockups when the allocation context depends on > other reclaimers to make a forward progress indirectly > - just in case because this would be safe from the fs POV - silence lockdep false positives -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- 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
