[Ocfs2-devel] A deadlock when system do not has sufficient memory

Xue jiufei xuejiufei at huawei.com
Sun Aug 24 19:05:49 PDT 2014


Hi Sunil,
On 2014/8/23 1:08, Sunil Mushran wrote:
> Allocs made via GFP_NOFS, by definition, should not trigger any reclaim from the fs.
> So this situation should never arise. That's why all allocs in the dlm have NOFS.
>
Thanks for your reply. I haven't noticed that before. So I think
dlm_query_region_handler() should also use GFP_NOFS instead of GFP_KERNEL,
right?

Thanks.
Xuejiufei
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