On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 02:17:42PM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 03:01:38PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > > From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> > > > > Upstream commit: 94054fa3fca1fd78db02cb3d68d5627120f0a1d4 > > > > Direct reclaim should never writeback pages. For now, handle the > > situation and warn about it. Ultimately, this will be a BUG_ON. > > Is this actually the case on 3.0-stable? > No, it is not. AFAIK, 3.0-stable does not contain [ee72886d: mm: vmscan: do not writeback filesystem pages in direct reclaim] which is the absolute minimum required for commit [94054fa3: xfs: warn if direct reclaim tries to writeback pages] to make sense. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs