From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] loop.c oopses
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 10:31:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020716083142.GQ811@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D33C64A.7491B591@zip.com.au>
On Tue, Jul 16 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> >
> > loop.c oopses when bio_copy() returns NULL. This was encountered while
> > running dbench 16 on a loopback-mounted reiserfs filesystem.
>
> ugh. GFP_NOIO is evil. I guess it's better to add __GFP_HIGH
> there, but it's not a happy solution.
GFP_NOIO has __GFP_WAIT set, so bio_copy -> bio_alloc -> mempool_alloc
should never fail. Puzzled.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-16 8:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-16 6:24 [BUG] loop.c oopses William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-16 7:07 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-16 8:31 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2002-07-16 8:52 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-16 8:48 ` Jens Axboe
2002-07-16 9:09 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-16 8:52 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-16 9:19 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-16 9:16 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-16 9:21 ` Jens Axboe
2002-07-16 12:49 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-16 16:36 ` Jens Axboe
2002-07-16 16:49 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-16 17:09 ` Jens Axboe
2002-07-16 19:42 ` Jari Ruusu
2002-07-16 21:14 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-16 21:36 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-17 5:40 ` Jens Axboe
2002-07-17 15:31 ` Jari Ruusu
2002-07-20 17:03 ` William Lee Irwin III
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