linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2 v2] remove PF_MEMALLOC

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Message-ID: <20240903051342.GA31046@lst.de>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 07:13:42 +0200
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com>, jack@...e.cz,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-bcachefs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2 v2] remove PF_MEMALLOC_NORECLAIM

On Mon, Sep 02, 2024 at 02:52:52PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> It would be helpful to summarize your concerns.

And that'd better be a really good argument for a change that was
pushed directly to Linus bypassing the maintainer after multiple
reviewers pointed out it was broken.  This series simply undoes the
damage done by that, while also keeping the code dependend on it
working.