Re: [PATCH] ext3: ext3_symlink should use GFP_NOFS allocationsinside (ver. 3)

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 11:46 +0300, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> Andrew,
> 
> Fixed both comments from Al Viro (thanks, Al):
> - should have a separate helper
> - should pass 0 instead of GFP_KERNEL in page_symlink()

>  
> +	page = find_or_create_page(mapping, 0,
> +			mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) | gfp_mask);



this does not work; GFP_NOFS has a bit *LESS* than GFP_KERNEL, not a bit
more. As such a | operation isn't going to be useful....

(So I think that while Al's intention was good, the implication of it
isn't ;)


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