linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/4] more robust PF

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Date:   Wed,  5 Apr 2017 09:46:56 +0200
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, nbd-general@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        open-iscsi@...glegroups.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>,
        Chris Leech <cleech@...hat.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>, Lee Duncan <lduncan@...e.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/4] more robust PF_MEMALLOC handling

Hi,

this series aims to unify the setting and clearing of PF_MEMALLOC, which
prevents recursive reclaim. There are some places that clear the flag
unconditionally from current->flags, which may result in clearing a
pre-existing flag. This already resulted in a bug report that Patch 1 fixes
(without the new helpers, to make backporting easier). Patch 2 introduces the
new helpers, modelled after existing memalloc_noio_* and memalloc_nofs_*
helpers, and converts mm core to use them. Patches 3 and 4 convert non-mm code.

Based on next-20170404.

Vlastimil Babka (4):
  mm: prevent potential recursive reclaim due to clearing PF_MEMALLOC
  mm: introduce memalloc_noreclaim_{save,restore}
  treewide: convert PF_MEMALLOC manipulations to new helpers
  mtd: nand: nandsim: convert to memalloc_noreclaim_*()

 drivers/block/nbd.c        |  7 ++++---
 drivers/mtd/nand/nandsim.c | 29 +++++++++--------------------
 drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c   |  7 ++++---
 include/linux/sched/mm.h   | 12 ++++++++++++
 mm/page_alloc.c            | 10 ++++++----
 mm/vmscan.c                | 17 +++++++++++------
 net/core/dev.c             |  7 ++++---
 net/core/sock.c            |  7 ++++---
 8 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)

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