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Re: [PATCH] ext3: ext3_symlink should use GFP_NOFS allocations inside (ver. 3) [message #1962 is a reply to message #1958]

Fri, 10 March 2006 08:46

Arjan van de Ven
Messages: 14
Registered: March 2006

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On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 11:46 +0300, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> Fixed both comments from Al Viro (thanks, Al):
> - should have a separate helper
> - should pass 0 instead of GFP_KERNEL in page_symlink()

>
> + page = find_or_create_page(mapping, 0,
> + mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) | gfp_mask);

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....

(So I think that while Al's intention was good, the implication of it
isn't ;)

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		[PATCH] ext3: ext3_symlink should use GFP_NOFS allocations inside (ver. 3) By: Kirill Korotaev on Fri, 10 March 2006 08:41
		Re: [PATCH] ext3: ext3_symlink should use GFP_NOFS allocations inside (ver. 3) By: Arjan van de Ven on Fri, 10 March 2006 08:46
		Re: [PATCH] ext3: ext3_symlink should use GFP_NOFS allocations inside (ver. 3) By: dev on Fri, 10 March 2006 08:52
		Re: [PATCH] ext3: ext3_symlink should use GFP_NOFS allocations inside (ver. 3) By: Andrew Morton on Fri, 10 March 2006 08:56
		Re: [PATCH] ext3: ext3_symlink should use GFP_NOFS allocations inside (ver. 3) By: dev on Fri, 10 March 2006 09:06
		Re: [PATCH] ext3: ext3_symlink should use GFP_NOFS allocations inside (ver. 3) By: Al Viro on Fri, 10 March 2006 08:59
		Re: [PATCH] ext3: ext3_symlink should use GFP_NOFS allocations inside (ver. 3) By: Arjan van de Ven on Fri, 10 March 2006 09:40

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