Re: [BUG] loop.c oopses
Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Tue, 16 Jul 2002 10:31:42 +0200
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
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