Re: [PATCH 020/102] xfs: warn if direct reclaim tries to writeback pages

Christoph Hellwig
2012-08-27T18:16:56Z

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 03:01:38PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
>
> Upstream commit: 94054fa3fca1fd78db02cb3d68d5627120f0a1d4
>
> Direct reclaim should never writeback pages. For now, handle the
> situation and warn about it. Ultimately, this will be a BUG_ON.

Is this actually the case on 3.0-stable?