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

Sunil Mushran sunil.mushran at gmail.com
Sun Aug 24 22:00:01 PDT 2014


Functions in dlmdomain.c are only triggered during mount. So they cannot
trigger the deadlock as described above in this thread. I would leave them
as is.
On Aug 24, 2014 7:06 PM, "Xue jiufei" <xuejiufei at huawei.com> wrote:

> 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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