On Thu, 22 Oct 2015, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > The problem would be that the "struct task_struct" to execute vmstat_update > job does not exist, and will not be able to create one on demand because we > are stuck at __GFP_WAIT allocation. Therefore adding a dedicated kernel > thread for vmstat_update job would work. But ... Yuck. Can someone please get this major screwup out of the work queue subsystem? Tejun? -- 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>