From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: kernel neophyte <neophyte.hacker001@gmail.com>,
"linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org" <linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Stefan Priebe <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bcache: Fix a shrinker deadlock
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 22:20:18 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130831042018.GP21481@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130830211510.GA20307@kmo-pixel>
On Fri, Aug 30 2013, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> GFP_NOIO means we could be getting called recursively - mca_alloc() ->
> mca_data_alloc() - definitely can't use mutex_lock(bucket_lock) then.
> Whoops.
Kent, can you provide and updated repo with the pending patches? There's
been some churn here lately (and good fixes), would like to ensure I
don't miss anything.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-31 4:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-30 0:29 Bcache sleeps forever on random writes kernel neophyte
2013-08-30 1:16 ` kernel neophyte
2013-08-30 21:15 ` [PATCH] bcache: Fix a shrinker deadlock Kent Overstreet
2013-08-31 4:20 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2013-08-31 13:37 ` Stefan Priebe
2013-09-03 20:51 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2013-09-04 23:35 ` kernel neophyte
2013-09-04 23:45 ` Kent Overstreet
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