From: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
To: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>,
ulf.hansson@linaro.org, chuanxiao.dong@intel.com, fabf@skynet.be
Cc: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmc: card: don't use PF_MEMALLOC
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 07:41:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56E9707D.5070004@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1458128635-3539-1-git-send-email-martink@posteo.de>
On 03/16/2016 04:43 AM, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
> PF_MEMALLOC is assigned to processes by mm. If drivers prevent memory
> reclaim and mm is not in control, strange hang-up or OOM Killer invocation
> could happen.
>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
> ---
> I use MMC cards with this change perfectly fine. As I understand it,
> even *if* PF_MEMALLOC has a real reason to be here, I think it should
> be very well documented.
Did you try swap on mmcblk?
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-16 14:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-16 11:43 [PATCH] mmc: card: don't use PF_MEMALLOC Martin Kepplinger
2016-03-16 14:41 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2016-03-16 15:07 ` Martin Kepplinger
2016-03-16 15:12 ` Jens Axboe
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