Theodore Tso wrote:

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 03:36:33PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:

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Sorry for the silence, this is a nice bug you've found :)

I'll look into it ...

You may want to take a quick look at this thread:

    http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/28/413

					- Ted

I thought about that, but at least at first glance I don't see how the
gfp mask change would cause this behavior...?  At least, I don't think
we're seeing recursion back into the filesystem... but I'll ponder that.

(Also, Arthur reports seeing this as long ago as 2.6.9...)

-Eric