Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc (Reiser Filesystem Devel)


Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc
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To: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:55:29 +0200
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx>, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx>, Alasdair G Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx>, Chris Mason <chris.mason@xxxxxxxxxx>, Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx>, Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>, "linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "linux-btrfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <linux-btrfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "cluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx" <cluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx>, "linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "reiserfs-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <reiserfs-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 13:43 -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> The cpusets case is actually the easiest to fix: use GFP_ATOMIC.  

I don't think that's a valid usage of GFP_ATOMIC, I think we should
fallback to outside the cpuset for kernel allocations by default.
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