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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/8] btrfs: Warn if direct reclaim tries to writeback pages
On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 01:10:31PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:28:46PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > Direct reclaim should never writeback pages. Warn if an attempt is
> > made. By rights, btrfs should be allowing writepage from kswapd if
> > it is failing to reclaim pages by any other means but it's outside
> > the scope of this patch.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
> > ---
> > fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 2 ++
> > fs/btrfs/inode.c | 2 ++
> > 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
> > index 1ac8db5d..cc9c9cf 100644
> > --- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
> > +++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
> > @@ -829,6 +829,8 @@ static int btree_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc)
> >
> > tree = &BTRFS_I(page->mapping->host)->io_tree;
> > if (!(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC)) {
> > + WARN_ON_ONCE((current->flags & (PF_MEMALLOC|PF_KSWAPD)) ==
> > + PF_MEMALLOC);
>
> Since it is branch for PF_MEMALLOC being set, why not just
> WARN_ON_ONCE(!(current->flags & PF_KSWAPD)) instead?
>
> Minor nitpick, though, and I can understand if you just want to have
> the conditionals be the same in every fs.
>

It was just copying the conditionals for the other FS although I admit
your version would look nicer.

--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs


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