Michal Hocko Messages: 109 Registered: December 2011
Senior Member
On Wed 15-08-12 18:27:45, Glauber Costa wrote:
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> >>
> >> I see now, you seem to be right.
> >
> > No I am not because it seems that I am really blind these days...
> > We were doing this in mem_cgroup_do_charge for ages:
> > if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT))
> > return CHARGE_WOULDBLOCK;
> >
> > /me goes to hide and get with further feedback with a clean head.
> >
> > Sorry about that.
> >
> I am as well, since I went to look at mem_cgroup_do_charge() and missed
> that.
I thought we are not doing atomic allocations in user pages accounting
but I was obviously wrong because at least shmem uses atomic
allocations for ages.
> Do you have any other concerns specific to this patch ?
I understood you changed also handle thingy. So the patch should be
correct.
Do you plan to send an updated version?