On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 10:57:44PM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > You have small posibility that interrupt will eat up memory - interrupt in > > process that has PF_MEMALLOC. Patch: > > this is not the point of getblk, to fix the getblk deadlock the only way is to > implement a fail path in each caller and allow getblk to return NULL (as every > other memory allocation function can do). Failing getblk would likely introduce filesystem corruption. Look at getblk in 2.0 - when allocating new page fails it tries to reuse existing clean buffers or wakes up bdflush and waits until it writes them. This is the right thing to do. Mikulas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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