Re: [PATCH] use GFP_NOFS in kernel_event()

Eric Paris
2009-05-01T18:12:10Z

On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 14:10 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:19:33 -0400
> Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > > Somebody was going to fix this for us via lockdep annotation.
> > >
> > > <adds randomly-chosen cc>
> >
> > I really didn't forget this, but I can't figure out how to recreate it,
> > so I don't know if my logic in the patch is sound. The patch certainly
> > will shut up the complaint.
>
> Do you think we should merge the GFP_NOFS workaround for 2.6.30 and
> fix all up nicely for 2.6.31?

I'm all for it for 2.6.30, although the patch really should have been
the one that gets the audit use case too at

>From me on Mar 18 Subject [PATCH] make inotify event handles use
GFP_NOFS