On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 02:44:20PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 01:06:29PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 12:58:19PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:28:45PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > > > > Direct reclaim should never writeback pages. Warn if an attempt > > > > is made. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> > > > > > > Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Oops, too fast. > > > > Shouldn't the WARN_ON() be at the top of the function, rather than > > just warn when the write is deferred due to delalloc? > > I thought it made more sense to put the warning at the point where ext4 > would normally ignore ->writepage. > > That said, in my current revision of the series, I've dropped these > patches altogether as page migration should be able to trigger the same > warnings but be called from paths that are of less concern for stack > overflows (or at the very least be looked at as a separate series). Doesn't this only apply to btrfs which has no own .migratepage aop for file pages? The others use buffer_migrate_page. But if you dropped them anyway, it does not matter :) _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
