On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:49:49PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > This is already in a filesystem. Why does ->writepage get > called a second time? Shouldn't this have a gfp_mask > without __GFP_FS set? Why would it? GFP_NOFS is not for all filesystem code, but only for code where we can't re-enter the filesystem due to deadlock potential. Except for a few filesystems that have transactions open inside ->aio_write no one uses GFP_NOFS from that path. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>