linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/9 v2] scope GFP

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Message-ID: <20161216153502.GP13940@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:   Fri, 16 Dec 2016 16:35:02 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org, cluster-devel@...hat.com,
        linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, logfs@...fs.org,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
        reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-ntfs-dev@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9 v2] scope GFP_NOFS api

On Fri 16-12-16 16:05:58, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-12-15 at 15:07 +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have posted the previous version here [1]. Since then I have added a
> > support to suppress reclaim lockdep warnings (__GFP_NOLOCKDEP) to allow
> > removing GFP_NOFS usage motivated by the lockdep false positives. On top
> > of that I've tried to convert few KM_NOFS usages to use the new flag in
> > the xfs code base. This would need a review from somebody familiar with
> > xfs of course.
> 
> The wild ass guess below prevents the xfs explosion below when running
> ltp zram tests.

Yes this looks correct. Thanks for noticing. I will fold it to the
patch2. Thanks for testing Mike!
> 
> ---
>  fs/xfs/kmem.h |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- a/fs/xfs/kmem.h
> +++ b/fs/xfs/kmem.h
> @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ kmem_flags_convert(xfs_km_flags_t flags)
>  {
>  	gfp_t	lflags;
>  
> -	BUG_ON(flags & ~(KM_SLEEP|KM_NOSLEEP|KM_NOFS|KM_MAYFAIL|KM_ZERO));
> +	BUG_ON(flags & ~(KM_SLEEP|KM_NOSLEEP|KM_NOFS|KM_MAYFAIL|KM_ZERO|KM_NOLOCKDEP));
>  
>  	if (flags & KM_NOSLEEP) {
>  		lflags = GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOWARN;
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs