From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail191.messagelabs.com (mail191.messagelabs.com [216.82.242.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9C7A6B0062 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:18:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from m6.gw.fujitsu.co.jp ([10.0.50.76]) by fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp (Fujitsu Gateway) with ESMTP id nAH7Ijnm031334 for (envelope-from kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com); Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:18:45 +0900 Received: from smail (m6 [127.0.0.1]) by outgoing.m6.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4056745DE4F for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:18:45 +0900 (JST) Received: from s6.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (s6.gw.fujitsu.co.jp [10.0.50.96]) by m6.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23E3E45DE4E for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:18:45 +0900 (JST) Received: from s6.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by s6.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 097DF1DB8038 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:18:45 +0900 (JST) Received: from m106.s.css.fujitsu.com (m106.s.css.fujitsu.com [10.249.87.106]) by s6.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7F921DB8037 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:18:41 +0900 (JST) From: KOSAKI Motohiro Subject: [PATCH 3/7] mtd: Don't use PF_MEMALLOC In-Reply-To: <20091117161551.3DD4.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> References: <20091117161551.3DD4.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Message-Id: <20091117161753.3DDD.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:18:41 +0900 (JST) Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: LKML Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, linux-mm , Andrew Morton , David Woodhouse , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org List-ID: Non MM subsystem must not use PF_MEMALLOC. Memory reclaim need few memory, anyone must not prevent it. Otherwise the system cause mysterious hang-up and/or OOM Killer invokation. Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro --- drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c | 3 --- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c b/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c index 8ca17a3..7be5ac3 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c @@ -82,9 +82,6 @@ static int mtd_blktrans_thread(void *arg) struct request_queue *rq = tr->blkcore_priv->rq; struct request *req = NULL; - /* we might get involved when memory gets low, so use PF_MEMALLOC */ - current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC; - spin_lock_irq(rq->queue_lock); while (!kthread_should_stop()) { -- 1.6.2.5 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org