From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Suzuki <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, cmm@us.ibm.com,
amit <amitarora@in.ibm.com>,
jack@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Fix kmalloc flags used in ext3 with an active journal handle
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:03:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061219180358.bfda00f0.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <458898B4.5010805@in.ibm.com>
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:58:12 -0800
Suzuki <suzuki@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> * Fix the kmalloc flags used from within ext3, when we have an active journal handle
>
> If we do a kmalloc with GFP_KERNEL on system running low on memory, with an active journal handle, we might end up in cleaning up the fs cache flushing dirty inodes for some other filesystem. This would cause hitting a J_ASSERT() in :
The change might be needed (haven't looked at it yet). But I'd like to see
the full BUG trace, please. To see the callchain.
Always include the trace...
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-20 2:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-20 1:58 [RFC] [PATCH] Fix kmalloc flags used in ext3 with an active journal handle Suzuki
2006-12-20 2:03 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-12-20 2:22 ` Suzuki
2006-12-21 4:35 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-22 11:44 ` Jan Kara
2006-12-23 2:25 ` Suzuki
2006-12-20 10:43 ` Jan Kara
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