[Devel] Re: [PATCH] ext3: ext3_symlink should use GFP_NOFS allocations inside (ver. 3)

Al Viro viro at ftp.linux.org.uk
Fri Mar 10 00:59:00 PST 2006


On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 09:46:25AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 11:46 +0300, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> > Andrew,
> > 
> > Fixed both comments from Al Viro (thanks, Al):
> > - should have a separate helper
> > - should pass 0 instead of GFP_KERNEL in page_symlink()
> 
> >  
> > +	page = find_or_create_page(mapping, 0,
> > +			mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) | gfp_mask);
> 
> 
> 
> this does not work; GFP_NOFS has a bit *LESS* than GFP_KERNEL, not a bit
> more. As such a | operation isn't going to be useful....
> 
> (So I think that while Al's intention was good, the implication of it
> isn't ;)

s/|/^/ and accept my apologies...




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