linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] block: remove gfp_mask for blkdev_zone

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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 08:41:36 -0700
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@...nel.org>, 
 Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@....com>, Johannes Thumshirn <jth@...nel.org>, 
 Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...nel.org>, 
 Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>, dm-devel@...ts.linux.dev, 
 Chris Mason <clm@...com>, Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>, 
 David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>, Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>, 
 Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, 
 Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>, Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@...dia.com>, 
 Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@....com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, 
 linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] block: remove gfp_mask for blkdev_zone_mgmt()


On Sun, 28 Jan 2024 23:52:15 -0800, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> Fueled by the LSFMM discussion on removing GFP_NOFS initiated by Willy,
> I've looked into the sole GFP_NOFS allocation in zonefs. As it turned out,
> it is only done for zone management commands and can be removed.
> 
> After digging into more callers of blkdev_zone_mgmt() I came to the
> conclusion that the gfp_mask parameter can be removed alltogether.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/5] zonefs: pass GFP_KERNEL to blkdev_zone_mgmt() call
      commit: 9105ce591b424771b1502ef9836ca7953c3e0af4
[2/5] dm: dm-zoned: guard blkdev_zone_mgmt with noio scope
      commit: 218082010aceb40b5495ebc30028ede6e30ee755
[3/5] btrfs: zoned: call blkdev_zone_mgmt in nofs scope
      commit: d9d556755f16f6af8d1d8ebac38b83a9263394c5
[4/5] f2fs: guard blkdev_zone_mgmt with nofs scope
      commit: 147ec1c60e3273d21ea1f212c6636f231d6d2771
[5/5] block: remove gfp_flags from blkdev_zone_mgmt
      commit: 71f4ecdbb42addf82b01b734b122a02707fed521

Best regards,
-- 
Jens Axboe