Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] mm, vmscan: account the number of isolated pages per zone

[Tetsuo Handa]

Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 25-01-17 19:33:59, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > I think we are missing a check for fatal_signal_pending in
> > > iomap_file_buffered_write. This means that an oom victim can consume the
> > > full memory reserves. What do you think about the following? I haven't
> > > tested this but it mimics generic_perform_write so I guess it should
> > > work.
> > 
> > Looks OK to me. I worried
> > 
> > #define AOP_FLAG_UNINTERRUPTIBLE        0x0001 /* will not do a short write */
> > 
> > which forbids (!?) aborting the loop. But it seems that this flag is
> > no longer checked (i.e. set but not used). So, everybody should be ready
> > for short write, although I don't know whether exofs / hfs / hfsplus are
> > doing appropriate error handling.
> 
> Those were using generic implementation before and that handles this
> case AFAICS.

What I wanted to say is: "We can remove AOP_FLAG_UNINTERRUPTIBLE completely
because grep does not find that flag used in condition check, can't we?".