From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Glauber Costa Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/19] shrinker: convert superblock shrinkers to new API Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:06:42 +0400 Message-ID: <50D2F142.401@parallels.com> References: <1354058086-27937-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <1354058086-27937-6-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: , , , To: Dave Chinner Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1354058086-27937-6-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On 11/28/2012 03:14 AM, Dave Chinner wrote: > +static long super_cache_count(struct shrinker *shrink, struct shrink_control *sc) > +{ > + struct super_block *sb; > + long total_objects = 0; > + > + sb = container_of(shrink, struct super_block, s_shrink); > + > + if (!grab_super_passive(sb)) > + return -1; > + You're missing the GFP_FS check here. This leads to us doing all the counting only to find out later, in the scanner, that we won't be able to free it. Better exit early. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org