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    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


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