[PATCH 1/4] xfs: PF_FSTRANS should never be set in ->writepage

Alex Elder aelder at sgi.com
Tue May 24 21:18:49 CDT 2011


On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 08:55 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Now that we reject direct reclaim in addition to always using GFP_NOFS
> allocation there's no chance we'll ever end up in ->writepage with
> PF_FSTRANS set.  Add a WARN_ON if we hit this case, and stop checking
> if we'd actually need to start a transaction.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>

Do the radix_tree_preload(GFP_KERNEL) calls in
xfs_iget_cache_miss() and xfs_mru_cache_insert()
pose any risk here?  (I haven't really looked
closely, I just noticed that these were cases we
did not use GFP_NOFS.)

Outside of that, this looks good.

Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder at sgi.com>






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