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SubjectRe: [RFC] propagate gfp_t to page table alloc functions
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:48:29 +1000
Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Hmm, there are several places to use GFP_NOIO and GFP_NOFS even, GFP_ATOMIC.
> > I believe it's not trivial now.
>
> They're all buggy then. Unfortunately not through any real fault of their own.

There are gruesome problems in block/blk-throttle.c (thread "mempool,
percpu, blkcg: fix percpu stat allocation and remove stats_lock"). It
wants to do an alloc_percpu()->vmalloc() from the IO submission path,
under GFP_NOIO.

Changing vmalloc() to take a gfp_t does make lots of sense, although I
worry a bit about making vmalloc() easier to use!

I do wonder whether the whole scheme of explicitly passing a gfp_t was
a mistake and that the allocation context should be part of the task
context. ie: pass the allocation mode via *current. As a handy
side-effect that would probably save quite some code where functions
are receiving a gfp_t arg then simply passing it on to the next
callee.



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