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Date:   Tue, 11 Dec 2018 17:39:52 +0100
From:   Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, memcg: fix reclaim deadlock with writeback
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On Tue 11-12-18 17:21:49, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 11-12-18 18:15:42, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > For instance, DAX page fault will setup page table entry on its own and
> > return VM_FAULT_NOPAGE. It uses vmf_insert_mixed() to setup the page table
> > and ignores your pre-allocated page table.
> 
> Does this happen with a page locked and with __GFP_ACCOUNT allocation. I
> am not familiar with that code but I do not see it from a quick look.

DAX has no page to lock and also no writeback to do so the deadlock isn't
really possible when DAX is in use...

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR