From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
jack@suse.cz, naoto.kobayashi4c@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: drop ext4_kvmalloc()
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 11:30:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200117103048.GB17141@quack2.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200116155031.266620-1-tytso@mit.edu>
On Thu 16-01-20 10:50:31, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> As Jan pointed out[1], as of commit 81378da64de ("jbd2: mark the
> transaction context with the scope GFP_NOFS context") we use
> memalloc_nofs_{save,restore}() while a jbd2 handle is active. So
> ext4_kvmalloc() so we can call allocate using GFP_NOFS is no longer
> necessary.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200109100007.GC27035@quack2.suse.cz
Your signed-off-by is missing but otherwise the patch looks good to me. You
can add:
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Honza
> ---
> fs/ext4/ext4.h | 1 -
> fs/ext4/resize.c | 10 ++++------
> fs/ext4/super.c | 10 ----------
> fs/ext4/xattr.c | 2 +-
> 4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
> index 5e621b0da4da..9a2ee2428ecc 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
> +++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
> @@ -2740,7 +2740,6 @@ extern struct buffer_head *ext4_sb_bread(struct super_block *sb,
> extern int ext4_seq_options_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *offset);
> extern int ext4_calculate_overhead(struct super_block *sb);
> extern void ext4_superblock_csum_set(struct super_block *sb);
> -extern void *ext4_kvmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags);
> extern int ext4_alloc_flex_bg_array(struct super_block *sb,
> ext4_group_t ngroup);
> extern const char *ext4_decode_error(struct super_block *sb, int errno,
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/resize.c b/fs/ext4/resize.c
> index a8c0f2b5b6e1..86a2500ed292 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/resize.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/resize.c
> @@ -824,9 +824,8 @@ static int add_new_gdb(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
> if (unlikely(err))
> goto errout;
>
> - n_group_desc = ext4_kvmalloc((gdb_num + 1) *
> - sizeof(struct buffer_head *),
> - GFP_NOFS);
> + n_group_desc = kvmalloc((gdb_num + 1) * sizeof(struct buffer_head *),
> + GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!n_group_desc) {
> err = -ENOMEM;
> ext4_warning(sb, "not enough memory for %lu groups",
> @@ -900,9 +899,8 @@ static int add_new_gdb_meta_bg(struct super_block *sb,
> gdb_bh = ext4_sb_bread(sb, gdblock, 0);
> if (IS_ERR(gdb_bh))
> return PTR_ERR(gdb_bh);
> - n_group_desc = ext4_kvmalloc((gdb_num + 1) *
> - sizeof(struct buffer_head *),
> - GFP_NOFS);
> + n_group_desc = kvmalloc((gdb_num + 1) * sizeof(struct buffer_head *),
> + GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!n_group_desc) {
> brelse(gdb_bh);
> err = -ENOMEM;
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
> index 84a86d9b790f..ecf36a23e0c4 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
> @@ -204,16 +204,6 @@ void ext4_superblock_csum_set(struct super_block *sb)
> es->s_checksum = ext4_superblock_csum(sb, es);
> }
>
> -void *ext4_kvmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
> -{
> - void *ret;
> -
> - ret = kmalloc(size, flags | __GFP_NOWARN);
> - if (!ret)
> - ret = __vmalloc(size, flags, PAGE_KERNEL);
> - return ret;
> -}
> -
> ext4_fsblk_t ext4_block_bitmap(struct super_block *sb,
> struct ext4_group_desc *bg)
> {
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
> index 246fbeeb6366..8cac7d95c3ad 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
> @@ -1456,7 +1456,7 @@ ext4_xattr_inode_cache_find(struct inode *inode, const void *value,
> if (!ce)
> return NULL;
>
> - ea_data = ext4_kvmalloc(value_len, GFP_NOFS);
> + ea_data = kvmalloc(value_len, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!ea_data) {
> mb_cache_entry_put(ea_inode_cache, ce);
> return NULL;
> --
> 2.24.1
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-17 10:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-27 8:05 [PATCH v2 0/3] ext4: Prevent memory reclaim from re-entering the filesystem and deadlocking Naoto Kobayashi
2019-12-27 8:05 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] ext4: Delete ext4_kvzvalloc() Naoto Kobayashi
2020-01-09 9:51 ` Jan Kara
2020-01-13 22:32 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-27 8:05 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] ext4: Rename ext4_kvmalloc() to ext4_kvmalloc_nofs() and drop its flags argument Naoto Kobayashi
2020-01-09 10:00 ` Jan Kara
2020-01-13 22:32 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-01-16 12:37 ` Jan Kara
2020-01-16 15:12 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-01-16 15:50 ` [PATCH] ext4: drop ext4_kvmalloc() Theodore Ts'o
2020-01-17 10:30 ` Jan Kara [this message]
2020-01-17 16:36 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-27 8:05 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] ext4: Prevent ext4_kvmalloc_nofs() from re-entering the filesystem and deadlocking Naoto Kobayashi
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