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Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 14:50:59 +0200
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: vmalloc with GFP_NOFS
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On Tue 24-04-18 14:09:27, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 24-04-18 20:26:23, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> [...]
> > It would be good to fix this, and it has been known as an issue for a long
> > time. We might well be able to make use of the new API though. It might be
> > as simple as adding the calls when we get & release glocks, but I'd have to
> > check the code to be sure,
> 
> Yeah, starting with annotating those locking contexts and how document
> how their are used in the reclaim is the great first step. This has to
> be done per-fs obviously.

Any chance of progress here?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs