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Subject: Re: vmalloc with GFP_NOFS
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On Tue 24-04-18 21:03:43, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 24. April 2018, 18:27:12 CEST schrieb Michal Hocko:
> > fs/ubifs/debug.c
> 
> This one is just for debugging.
> So, preallocating + locking would not hurt much.
> 
> > fs/ubifs/lprops.c
> 
> Ditto.
> 
> > fs/ubifs/lpt_commit.c
> 
> Here we use it also only in debugging mode and in one case for
> fatal error reporting.
> No hot paths.
> 
> > fs/ubifs/orphan.c
> 
> Also only for debugging.
> Getting rid of vmalloc with GFP_NOFS in UBIFS is no big problem.
> I can prepare a patch.

Hi Richard, I have just got back to this and noticed that the vmalloc
NOFS usage is still there. Do you have any plans to push changes to
remove it?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs