linux-kernel - [PATCH, RFC] block: set noio context in submit_bio_noacct

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Message-Id: <20240124093941.2259199-1-hch@lst.de>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 10:39:41 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To: axboe@...nel.dk
Cc: linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
	tj@...nel.org,
	jiangshanlai@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH, RFC] block: set noio context in submit_bio_noacct_nocheck

Make sure all in-line block layer submission runs in noio reclaim
context.  This is a big step towards allowing GFP_NOIO, the other
one would be to have noio (and nofs for that matter) workqueues for
kblockd and driver internal workqueues.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
---
 block/blk-core.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 11342af420d0c4..b85ef8a0fdf6a0 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -691,6 +691,8 @@ static void __submit_bio_noacct_mq(struct bio *bio)
 
 void submit_bio_noacct_nocheck(struct bio *bio)
 {
+	unsigned int noio_flag = memalloc_noio_save();
+
 	blk_cgroup_bio_start(bio);
 	blkcg_bio_issue_init(bio);
 
@@ -715,6 +717,8 @@ void submit_bio_noacct_nocheck(struct bio *bio)
 		__submit_bio_noacct_mq(bio);
 	else
 		__submit_bio_noacct(bio);
+
+	memalloc_noio_restore(noio_flag);
 }
 
 /**
-- 
2.39.2