Re: [PATCH] ubifs: Change gfp flags in page allocation for bulk read

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Hyunchul,

Am 13.06.2017 um 08:30 schrieb Hyunchul Lee:
> From: Hyunchul Lee <cheol.lee@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Use readahead_gfp_mask for gfp flags when allocating pages.
> This set additional flags which are __GFP_NORETRY and
> __GFP_NOWARN. So OOMs and a failure message can be
> avoided.
> And we should remove __GFP_FS from flags to prevent from
> calling ubifs_writepage during page reclaim.

Your commit message does not explain why we need this and what
problem it solves.
When facing changes like this I'm especially interested in whether
this is a theoretical bugfix or not.

Thanks,
//richard



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