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SubjectRe: vmalloc with GFP_NOFS
On Wed 25-04-18 00:18:40, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> 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?

Exactly! And in a dream world those memalloc_nofs_save act as a
documentation of the reclaim recursion documentation ;)
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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