linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: Use GFP_KERNEL allocation for the page cache in page_cache

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Message-ID: <20150320225139.GL28621@dastard>
Date:	Sat, 21 Mar 2015 09:51:39 +1100
From:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Cc:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
	Sage Weil <sage@...tank.com>, Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@...e.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Use GFP_KERNEL allocation for the page cache in
 page_cache_read

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 02:14:53PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 20-03-15 14:48:20, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 01:44:41PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > > allocations where the caller cannot pass a gfp_mask need to obey
> > > > the mapping_gfp_mask that is set by the mapping owner....
> > > 
> > > Hmm, I thought this is true only when the function might be called from
> > > the fs path.
> > 
> > How do you know in, say, mpage_readpages, you aren't being called
> > from a fs path that holds locks? e.g. we can get there from ext4
> > doing readdir, so it is holding an i_mutex lock at that point.
> > 
> > Many other paths into mpages_readpages don't hold locks, but there
> > are some that do, and those that do need functionals like this to
> > obey the mapping_gfp_mask because it is set appropriately for the
> > allocation context of the inode that owns the mapping....
> 
> What about the following?
> ---
> From 5d905cb291138d61bbab056845d6e53bc4451ec8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 14:56:56 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] mm: do not ignore mapping_gfp_mask in page cache
>  allocation paths

Looks reasonable, though I though there were more places that that
in the mapping paths that need to be careful...

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com
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