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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, npiggin@kernel.dk, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: flush vmap aliases when mapping fails
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:24:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110317142418.GB32673@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110310224945.GA15097@dastard>

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:49:45AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > IMHO this should be done by vm_map_ram internally.  If we can't get the
> > core code fixes we can put this in as a last resort.
> 
> OK. The patch was done as part of the triage for this bug:
> 
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27492
> 
> where the vmalloc space on 32 bit systems is getting exhausted. I
> can easily move this flush-and-retry into the vmap code.

Looks like we're not going to make any progress on the VM side for this,
so I think we'll need the XFS variant for 2.6.39.


Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-17 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1299713876-7747-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>
2011-03-10  7:37 ` [PATCH] xfs: flush vmap aliases when mapping fails Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-10 22:49   ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-17 14:24     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-03-21 12:25     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-03-22 12:57       ` Johannes Weiner
2011-03-27 23:54         ` Dave Chinner
2011-03-18 14:24   ` Johannes Weiner

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