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From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
To: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Gao Xiang <xiang@kernel.org>,
	Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>, "Theodore Tso" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Trond Myklebust <trondmy@kernel.org>,
	Anna Schumaker <anna@kernel.org>,
	Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>,
	Hyunchul Lee <hyc.lee@gmail.com>,
	Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>,
	linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
	ntfs@lists.linux.dev, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/9] Remove FGP_NOFS
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2026 05:18:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260830041901.2668-1-willy@infradead.org> (raw)

There is broad agreement that we should eliminate __GFP_FS in favour of
using memalloc_nofs_save().  This is a small step in that direction by
getting rid of FGP_NOFS.  It's also a nice simplification in its own right.

I added the documentation improvement at the start of this series, not
because anything depends on that (obviously it doesn't), but because
I thought the existing documentation was rather MM centric and it needs
to be FS centric.  Hopefully the cc'd filesystem maintainers will have
the chance to look at patch 1 and see if it makes sense to them.

There's a few different solutions here:

 - Filesystems specifying both FGP_NOWAIT and FGP_NOFS.  If you're not
   waiting, it doesn't matter if you're allowed to reclaim from FS
   context or not, you're just not doing reclaim.
 - We're already under memalloc_nofs.
 - We can prove that the MM should be allowed to reclaim from
   filesystem memory (and so specifying FGP_NOFS was wrong).
 - We can add a call to memalloc_nofs_save().

Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) (9):
  mm: Improve memalloc_nofs_save() documentation
  ext4: Remove uses of FGP_NOFS
  erofs: Remove redundant FGP_NOFS
  nfs: Remove redundant FGP_NOFS
  ntfs: Remove FGP_NOFS from __ntfs_inode_resident_attr_pwrite()
  ntfs: Remove redundant FGP_NOFS from ntfs_wof_collect_dest()
  squashfs: Remove use of FGP_NOFS
  filemap: Remove redundant FGP_NOFS
  filemap: Remove FGP_NOFS

 fs/erofs/internal.h      |  2 +-
 fs/ext4/inline.c         |  6 ++----
 fs/nfs/dir.c             |  2 +-
 fs/ntfs/inode.c          |  2 +-
 fs/ntfs/wof.c            |  7 +++----
 fs/squashfs/file.c       |  5 ++++-
 include/linux/pagemap.h  | 12 +++++-------
 include/linux/sched/mm.h | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 mm/filemap.c             |  2 --
 mm/readahead.c           | 14 ++------------
 10 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)

-- 
2.47.3



             reply	other threads:[~2026-08-30  4:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-30  4:18 Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) [this message]
2026-08-30  4:18 ` [PATCH 1/9] mm: Improve memalloc_nofs_save() documentation Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2026-08-30  4:21   ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-31  9:59   ` Jan Kara
2026-08-30  4:18 ` [PATCH 2/9] ext4: Remove uses of FGP_NOFS Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2026-08-30  4:27   ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-31 10:03   ` Jan Kara
2026-08-31 12:32   ` Baokun Li
2026-09-01  2:17   ` Zhang Yi
2026-09-03 14:44   ` Theodore Tso
2026-08-30  4:18 ` [PATCH 3/9] erofs: Remove redundant FGP_NOFS Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2026-08-30  4:24   ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-31 10:08   ` Jan Kara
2026-09-01  5:55   ` Gao Xiang
2026-08-30  4:18 ` [PATCH 4/9] nfs: " Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2026-08-30  4:26   ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-31 10:07   ` Jan Kara
2026-08-30  4:18 ` [PATCH 5/9] ntfs: Remove FGP_NOFS from __ntfs_inode_resident_attr_pwrite() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2026-08-30  4:39   ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-31 23:34   ` Namjae Jeon
2026-08-30  4:18 ` [PATCH 6/9] ntfs: Remove redundant FGP_NOFS from ntfs_wof_collect_dest() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2026-08-30  4:25   ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-31 23:31   ` Namjae Jeon
2026-08-30  4:18 ` [PATCH 7/9] squashfs: Remove use of FGP_NOFS Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2026-08-30  4:33   ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-31 10:11   ` Jan Kara
2026-08-30  4:18 ` [PATCH 8/9] filemap: Remove redundant FGP_NOFS Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2026-08-30  4:25   ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-31 10:06   ` Jan Kara
2026-08-30  4:18 ` [PATCH 9/9] filemap: Remove FGP_NOFS Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2026-08-30  4:27   ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-30  4:32     ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-08-31 10:07   ` Jan Kara

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