Re: [PATCH v4 0/6] solve deadlock caused by memory allocation with I/O
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2012-11-06 23:23:08
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On Sat, 3 Nov 2012 16:35:08 +0800 Ming Lei [off-list ref] wrote:
This patchset try to solve one deadlock problem which might be caused by memory allocation with block I/O during runtime PM and block device error handling path. Traditionly, the problem is addressed by passing GFP_NOIO statically to mm, but that is not a effective solution, see detailed description in patch 1's commit log.
It generally looks OK to me. I have a few comments and I expect to grab v5. Rafael, your thoughts? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>