From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pf0-f197.google.com (mail-pf0-f197.google.com [209.85.192.197]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23E6D6B026D for ; Mon, 28 May 2018 11:54:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pf0-f197.google.com with SMTP id c187-v6so7585291pfa.20 for ; Mon, 28 May 2018 08:54:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de. [195.135.220.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n8-v6si30044145plp.468.2018.05.28.08.54.14 for (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 28 May 2018 08:54:15 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: document scope NOFS, NOIO APIs References: <20180424183536.GF30619@thunk.org> <20180524114341.1101-1-mhocko@kernel.org> <6c9df175-df6c-2531-b90c-318e4fff72bb@infradead.org> <20180525075217.GF11881@dhcp22.suse.cz> From: Nikolay Borisov Message-ID: <7c5d8afb-563f-43fd-50ef-d532550983c7@suse.com> Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 10:21:00 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180525075217.GF11881@dhcp22.suse.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Michal Hocko , Randy Dunlap Cc: Jonathan Corbet , LKML , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, "Darrick J. Wong" , David Sterba On 25.05.2018 10:52, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Thu 24-05-18 09:37:18, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> On 05/24/2018 04:43 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: > [...] >>> +The traditional way to avoid this deadlock problem is to clear __GFP_FS >>> +resp. __GFP_IO (note the later implies clearing the first as well) in >> >> latter > > ? > No I really meant that clearing __GFP_IO implies __GFP_FS clearing Sorry to barge in like that, but Randy is right. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/latter " of, relating to, or being the second of two groups or things or the last of several groups or things referred to >