From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5195A8D0039 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:24:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:24:18 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: flush vmap aliases when mapping fails Message-ID: <20110317142418.GB32673@infradead.org> References: <1299713876-7747-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <20110310073751.GB25374@infradead.org> <20110310224945.GA15097@dastard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110310224945.GA15097@dastard> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Dave Chinner Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-mm@kvack.org, npiggin@kernel.dk, xfs@oss.sgi.com 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 -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org