Re: [Bug 335] New: XFS Oops with 2.6.7-rc3

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 03:43:18PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 01:01:45PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > This patch fixes it. The problem is that XFS expects __GFP_NOFAIL to
> > never return NULL, but it returns NULL anyways when PF_MEMALLOC is
> > set for the current process. This patch just readds looping in the
> > XFS allocator.
> 
> I thought we had something like this?  Anyhow, since this does appear
> to be required and it's been about for a while --- I wonder why it's
> not been merged?

Christoph wasn't quite happy with it, and has an alternate fix pending.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan