linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] make inotify event handles use GFP

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Date:	Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:26:10 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, peterz@...radead.org,
	balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, eparis@...hat.com,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, aviro@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make inotify event handles use GFP_NOFS

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:27:32 -0400
Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com> wrote:

> I think this is a bandaide to shut up lockdep.  I could either figure
> out lockdep classes and figure out how to reclassify inotify locks since
> I believe Nick is correct when he says inotify watches pin the inode in
> core so memory pressure can't evict it.

It's pretty sad to degrading the strength of the memory allocation just
to squish a lockdep report.

>  I don't want to do that as I
> think the real fix is my next generation fsnotify which does zero
> allocations under locks and so everything can be GFP_KERNEL.

I assume that's the 13-patch series further down in my todo pile.

Perhaps this workaround is suitable for 2.6.29.x, or 2.6.30 if the
13-patch-series was too late.  But do we care enough?


>  I'm
> posting this as it is clearly safe and should fix the issue.
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123617147432377&w=2
> 
> includes a lockdep warning that shows while we are reclaiming FS memory
> and inode may get evicted which generates an IN_IGNORED message.  Half
> of that code path already used GFP_NOFS but a second allocation to store
> the filename was using GFP_KERNEL.  As a precaution I also moved the
> audit handle_event code path to use GFP_NOFS.
> 
> This is much the same as the precaution in f04b30de3c82528 which did
> something similar.
> 

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