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, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>