[pnfs] [PATCH 0/2] A couple of fixes for the pNFS client
Benny Halevy
bhalevy at panasas.com
Tue Jul 15 02:26:57 EDT 2008
On Jul. 15, 2008, 6:39 +0300, Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust at netapp.com> wrote:
> The following series fixes a couple of serious problems in the pNFS
> GETLAYOUT client code.
>
> - Routines that may be run in the NFS writeback path may not allocate
> memory using GFP_KERNEL.
> - It is illegal for an asynchronous RPC callback function to make
> synchronous RPC calls.
>
> Please note that this is by no means an exhaustive list of the above two
> types of bug...
>
Hi Trond, thanks for the patches. I'll apply them later today.
I'll look for more similar cases as you noted.
Benny
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