Messages in this thread | | | From | Richard Weinberger <> | Subject | Re: vmalloc with GFP_NOFS | Date | Wed, 25 Apr 2018 00:18:40 +0200 |
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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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