On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 04:17:34PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > insert_revoke_hash does an open coded endless allocation loop if > journal_oom_retry is true. It doesn't implement any allocation fallback > strategy between the retries, though. The memory allocator doesn't know > about the never fail requirement so it cannot potentially help to move > on with the allocation (e.g. use memory reserves). > > Get rid of the retry loop and use __GFP_NOFAIL instead. We will lose the > debugging message but I am not sure it is anyhow helpful. > > Do the same for journal_alloc_journal_head which is doing a similar > thing. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Thanks, applied. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
