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From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: "Ming Lei" <tom.leiming@gmail.com>,
	"Marek Marczykowski-Górecki" <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>,
	"Jan Kara" <jack@suse.cz>, "Vlastimil Babka" <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Matthew Wilcox" <willy@infradead.org>,
	"Michal Hocko" <mhocko@suse.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, regressions@lists.linux.dev,
	"Alasdair Kergon" <agk@redhat.com>,
	"Mike Snitzer" <snitzer@kernel.org>,
	dm-devel@lists.linux.dev, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org,
	ming.lei@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Intermittent storage (dm-crypt?) freeze - regression 6.4->6.5
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2023 13:16:37 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fd2e3ba-d681-4856-3d50-9f63a2fcb0a8@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ab02413f-4bf2-4d92-baf7-62fbd106f5df@suse.de>



On Wed, 1 Nov 2023, Hannes Reinecke wrote:

> And that is something I've been wondering (for quite some time now):
> What _is_ the appropriate error handling for -ENOMEM?
> At this time, we assume it to be a retryable error and re-run the queue
> in the hope that things will sort itself out.
> But if they don't we're stuck.
> Can we somehow figure out if we make progress during submission, and (at
> least) issue a warning once we detect a stall?

The appropriate way is to use mempools. mempool_alloc (with 
__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM) can't ever fail.

But some kernel code does GFP_NOIO allocations in the I/O path and the 
authors hope that they get away with it.

Mikulas



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-11-01 12:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <e427823c-e869-86a2-3549-61b3fdf29537@redhat.com>
     [not found]   ` <ZTiHQDY54E7WAld+@mail-itl>
     [not found]     ` <ZTiJ3CO8w0jauOzW@mail-itl>
2023-10-25 10:13       ` Intermittent storage (dm-crypt?) freeze - regression 6.4->6.5 Mikulas Patocka
2023-10-27 17:32         ` Mikulas Patocka
2023-10-28  9:23           ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-10-28 15:14             ` Mike Snitzer
2023-10-29 11:15           ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2023-10-29 20:02         ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-10-30  7:37           ` Mikulas Patocka
2023-10-30  8:37             ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-10-30 11:22               ` Mikulas Patocka
2023-10-30 11:30                 ` Vlastimil Babka
2023-10-30 11:37                   ` Mikulas Patocka
2023-10-30 12:25                   ` Jan Kara
2023-10-30 13:30                     ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2023-10-30 14:08                       ` Mikulas Patocka
2023-10-30 15:56                         ` Jan Kara
2023-10-30 16:51                           ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2023-10-30 17:50                             ` Mikulas Patocka
2023-10-31  3:48                               ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2023-10-31 14:01                                 ` Jan Kara
2023-10-31 15:42                                   ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2023-10-31 17:17                                     ` Mikulas Patocka
2023-10-31 17:24                                       ` Mikulas Patocka
2023-11-02  0:38                                         ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2023-11-02  9:28                                           ` Mikulas Patocka
2023-11-02 11:45                                             ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2023-11-02 17:06                                               ` Mikulas Patocka
2023-11-03 15:01                                                 ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2023-11-03 15:10                                                   ` Keith Busch
2023-11-03 16:15                                                 ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2023-11-03 16:54                                                   ` Keith Busch
2023-11-03 20:30                                                     ` Marek Marczykowski-G'orecki
2023-11-03 22:42                                                       ` Keith Busch
2023-11-04  9:27                                                         ` Mikulas Patocka
2023-11-04 13:59                                                           ` Keith Busch
2023-11-06  7:10                                                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-06 14:59                                                               ` [PATCH] swiotlb-xen: provide the "max_mapping_size" method Mikulas Patocka
2023-11-06 15:16                                                                 ` Keith Busch
2023-11-06 15:30                                                                   ` Mike Snitzer
2023-11-06 17:12                                                                     ` [PATCH v2] " Mikulas Patocka
2023-11-07  4:18                                                                       ` Stefano Stabellini
2023-11-08  7:31                                                                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-06  7:08                                                     ` Intermittent storage (dm-crypt?) freeze - regression 6.4->6.5 Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-02 12:21                                             ` Jan Kara
2023-11-01  1:27                                     ` Ming Lei
     [not found]                                       ` <ZUG0gcRhUlFm57qN@mail-itl>
     [not found]                                         ` <ZUG016NyTms2073C@mail-itl>
2023-11-01  2:35                                           ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2023-11-01  3:24                                         ` Ming Lei
2023-11-01 10:15                                           ` Hannes Reinecke
2023-11-01 10:26                                             ` Jan Kara
2023-11-01 11:23                                             ` Ming Lei
2023-11-02 14:02                                               ` Keith Busch
2023-11-01 12:16                                             ` Mikulas Patocka [this message]
2023-10-30 11:28               ` Jan Kara
2023-10-30 11:49                 ` Mikulas Patocka
2023-10-30 12:11                   ` Jan Kara

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