[PATCH v3 0/5] block: remove gfp_mask for blkdev_zone_mgmt()

Johannes Thumshirn
2024-01-29T07:52:39Z

Fueled by the LSFMM discussion on removing GFP_NOFS initiated by Willy,
I've looked into the sole GFP_NOFS allocation in zonefs. As it turned out,
it is only done for zone management commands and can be removed.

After digging into more callers of blkdev_zone_mgmt() I came to the
conclusion that the gfp_mask parameter can be removed alltogether.

So this series switches all callers of blkdev_zone_mgmt() to either use
GFP_KERNEL where possible or grab a memalloc_no{fs,io} context.

The final patch in this series is getting rid of the gfp_mask parameter.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZZcgXI46AinlcBDP@casper.infradead.org/

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Changes in v3:
- Fix build error after rebase in dm-zoned-metadata.c
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240125-zonefs_nofs-v2-0-2d975c8c1690@wdc.com

Changes in v2:
- guard blkdev_zone_mgmt in dm-zoned-metadata.c with memalloc_noio context
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240123-zonefs_nofs-v1-0-cc0b0308ef25@wdc.com

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Johannes Thumshirn (5):
zonefs: pass GFP_KERNEL to blkdev_zone_mgmt() call
dm: dm-zoned: guard blkdev_zone_mgmt with noio scope
btrfs: zoned: call blkdev_zone_mgmt in nofs scope
f2fs: guard blkdev_zone_mgmt with nofs scope
block: remove gfp_flags from blkdev_zone_mgmt

block/blk-zoned.c | 19 ++++++++-----------
drivers/md/dm-zoned-metadata.c | 5 ++++-
drivers/nvme/target/zns.c | 5 ++---
fs/btrfs/zoned.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
fs/f2fs/segment.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
fs/zonefs/super.c | 2 +-
include/linux/blkdev.h | 2 +-
7 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 615d300648869c774bd1fe54b4627bb0c20faed4
change-id: 20240110-zonefs_nofs-dd1e22b2e046

Best regards,
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Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>