Re: [RFC PATCHv2 1/1] fs: ext4: Don't use CMA for buffer_head

["Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 04:22:37PM +0800, zhaoyang.huang wrote:
>  
> +#ifndef CONFIG_CMA
>  	bh = sb_getblk(inode->i_sb, map.m_pblk);
> +#else
> +	bh = sb_getblk_gfp(inode->i_sb, map.m_pblk, 0);
> +#endif

So all of these patches to try to work around your issue with CMA are
a bit ugly.  But passing in a GFP mask of zero is definitely not the
right way to go about thing, since there might be certain GFP masks
that are required by a particular block device.  What I think you are
trying to do is to avoid setting the __GFP_MOVEABLE flag.  So in that
case, in the CMA path something like this is what you want:

	bh = getblk_unmoveable(sb->s_bdev, map.m_pblk, sb->s_blocksize);

I'd also sugest only trying to use this is the file system has
journaling enabled.  If the file system is an ext2 file system without
a journal, there's no reason avoid using the CMA region --- and I
assume the reason why the buffer cache is trying to use the moveable
flag is because the amount of non-CMA memory might be a precious
resource in some systems.

				- Ted