Re: [PATCH] ext3: ext3_symlink should use GFP_NOFS allocations inside (ver. 3) [message #1965 is a reply to message #1962] |
Fri, 10 March 2006 08:59 |
Al Viro
Messages: 5 Registered: March 2006
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On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 09:46:25AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 11:46 +0300, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> > Andrew,
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> > Fixed both comments from Al Viro (thanks, Al):
> > - should have a separate helper
> > - should pass 0 instead of GFP_KERNEL in page_symlink()
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> > + page = find_or_create_page(mapping, 0,
> > + mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) | gfp_mask);
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> this does not work; GFP_NOFS has a bit *LESS* than GFP_KERNEL, not a bit
> more. As such a | operation isn't going to be useful....
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> (So I think that while Al's intention was good, the implication of it
> isn't ;)
s/|/^/ and accept my apologies...
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