From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
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LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] mm: introduce memalloc_nofs_{save,restore} API
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 12:42:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170309114253.GA14605@twin.jikos.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170307150956.GM28642@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 04:09:56PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 06-03-17 13:22:14, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 14:14:05 +0100 Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
> [...]
> > > --- a/include/linux/gfp.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
> > > @@ -210,8 +210,16 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
> > > *
> > > * GFP_NOIO will use direct reclaim to discard clean pages or slab pages
> > > * that do not require the starting of any physical IO.
> > > + * Please try to avoid using this flag directly and instead use
> > > + * memalloc_noio_{save,restore} to mark the whole scope which cannot
> > > + * perform any IO with a short explanation why. All allocation requests
> > > + * will inherit GFP_NOIO implicitly.
> > > *
> > > * GFP_NOFS will use direct reclaim but will not use any filesystem interfaces.
> > > + * Please try to avoid using this flag directly and instead use
> > > + * memalloc_nofs_{save,restore} to mark the whole scope which cannot/shouldn't
> > > + * recurse into the FS layer with a short explanation why. All allocation
> > > + * requests will inherit GFP_NOFS implicitly.
> >
> > I wonder if these are worth a checkpatch rule.
>
> I am not really sure, to be honest. This may easilly end up people
> replacing
>
> do_alloc(GFP_NOFS)
>
> with
>
> memalloc_nofs_save()
> do_alloc(GFP_KERNEL)
> memalloc_nofs_restore()
>
> which doesn't make any sense of course. From my experience, people tend
> to do stupid things just to silent checkpatch warnings very often.
> Moreover I believe we need to do the transition to the new api first
> before we can push back on the explicit GFP_NOFS usage. Maybe then we
> can think about the a checkpatch warning.
I agree will all your objections against adding that to checkpatch, at
this point it's less harmful to use GFP_NOFS.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-09 11:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-06 13:14 [PATCH 0/7 v5] scope GFP_NOFS api Michal Hocko
2017-03-06 13:14 ` [PATCH 1/7] lockdep: teach lockdep about memalloc_noio_save Michal Hocko
2017-03-06 13:14 ` [PATCH 2/7] lockdep: allow to disable reclaim lockup detection Michal Hocko
2017-03-06 13:14 ` [PATCH 3/7] xfs: abstract PF_FSTRANS to PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS Michal Hocko
2017-03-06 13:14 ` [PATCH 4/7] mm: introduce memalloc_nofs_{save, restore} API Michal Hocko
2017-03-06 21:22 ` [PATCH 4/7] mm: introduce memalloc_nofs_{save,restore} API Andrew Morton
2017-03-07 15:09 ` Michal Hocko
2017-03-09 11:42 ` David Sterba [this message]
2017-03-06 13:14 ` [PATCH 5/7] xfs: use memalloc_nofs_{save,restore} instead of memalloc_noio* Michal Hocko
2017-03-06 13:14 ` [PATCH 6/7] jbd2: mark the transaction context with the scope GFP_NOFS context Michal Hocko
2017-03-06 13:14 ` [PATCH 7/7] jbd2: make the whole kjournald2 kthread NOFS safe Michal Hocko
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