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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: prevent stack overflows from page cache allocation
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 08:42:20 -0700
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On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:37:51PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Sure, if you want to. But doing that shouldn't prevent this fix from
> being committed in the mean time, especially as other filesystems
> already use this method for avoiding these problems.

I'd much prefer aiming for the proper fix first.  If for some reason we
can't get it done in time the workaround can be applied.