From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: cluster-devel.redhat.com
Subject: [Cluster-devel] vmalloc with GFP_NOFS
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 00:18:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3894056.cxOY6eVYVp@blindfold> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180424192803.GT17484@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Am Dienstag, 24. April 2018, 21:28:03 CEST schrieb Michal Hocko:
> > Also only for debugging.
> > Getting rid of vmalloc with GFP_NOFS in UBIFS is no big problem.
> > I can prepare a patch.
>
> Cool!
>
> Anyway, if UBIFS has some reclaim recursion critical sections in general
> it would be really great to have them documented and that is where the
> scope api is really handy. Just add the scope and document what is the
> recursion issue. This will help people reading the code as well. Ideally
> there shouldn't be any explicit GFP_NOFS in the code.
So in a perfect world a filesystem calls memalloc_nofs_save/restore and
always uses GFP_KERNEL for kmalloc/vmalloc?
Thanks,
//richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-24 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-24 16:27 [Cluster-devel] vmalloc with GFP_NOFS Michal Hocko
2018-04-24 16:46 ` Mikulas Patocka
2018-04-24 16:55 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-24 17:05 ` Mikulas Patocka
2018-04-24 18:35 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-04-24 19:25 ` Michal Hocko
2018-05-09 13:42 ` Michal Hocko
2018-05-09 14:13 ` David Sterba
2018-05-09 15:13 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-05-09 16:24 ` Mike Rapoport
2018-05-09 21:06 ` Michal Hocko
2018-05-09 21:04 ` Michal Hocko
2018-05-09 22:02 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-05-10 5:58 ` Michal Hocko
2018-05-10 7:18 ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-17 12:49 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-24 19:03 ` Richard Weinberger
2018-04-24 19:28 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-24 22:18 ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
2018-04-24 23:09 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-24 23:17 ` Mikulas Patocka
2018-04-24 23:25 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-25 12:43 ` Mikulas Patocka
2018-04-25 14:45 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-25 15:25 ` Mikulas Patocka
2018-04-25 16:56 ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-17 12:47 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-24 19:05 ` Richard Weinberger
2018-04-24 19:10 ` Richard Weinberger
2018-04-24 19:26 ` Steven Whitehouse
2018-04-24 20:09 ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-17 12:50 ` Michal Hocko
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