Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:44:11 -0400 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: Use GFP_KERNEL allocation for the page cache in page_cache_read |
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On 03/18/2015 10:09 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: > page_cache_read has been historically using page_cache_alloc_cold to > allocate a new page. This means that mapping_gfp_mask is used as the > base for the gfp_mask. Many filesystems are setting this mask to > GFP_NOFS to prevent from fs recursion issues. page_cache_read is, > however, not called from the fs layer
Is that true for filesystems that have directories in the page cache?
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