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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
	Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>, Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Use GFP_KERNEL allocation for the page cache in page_cache_read
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:55:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150318145528.GK17241@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55098F3B.7070000@redhat.com>

On Wed 18-03-15 10:44:11, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 03/18/2015 10:09 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > page_cache_read has been historically using page_cache_alloc_cold to
> > allocate a new page. This means that mapping_gfp_mask is used as the
> > base for the gfp_mask. Many filesystems are setting this mask to
> > GFP_NOFS to prevent from fs recursion issues. page_cache_read is,
> > however, not called from the fs layer 
> 
> Is that true for filesystems that have directories in
> the page cache?

I haven't found any explicit callers of filemap_fault except for ocfs2
and ceph and those seem OK to me. Which filesystems you have in mind?

Btw. how would that work as we already have GFP_KERNEL allocation few
lines below?

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-18 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-18 14:09 [PATCH] mm: Use GFP_KERNEL allocation for the page cache in page_cache_read Michal Hocko
2015-03-18 14:32 ` Rik van Riel
2015-03-18 14:37   ` Michal Hocko
2015-03-18 14:38 ` Mel Gorman
2015-03-18 14:43   ` Michal Hocko
2015-03-18 14:44 ` Rik van Riel
2015-03-18 14:55   ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2015-03-19  7:14     ` Dave Chinner
2015-03-19 11:11       ` [PATCH] mm: Use GFP_KERNEL allocation for the page cache inpage_cache_read Tetsuo Handa
2015-03-19 12:44       ` [PATCH] mm: Use GFP_KERNEL allocation for the page cache in page_cache_read Michal Hocko
2015-03-20  3:48         ` Dave Chinner
2015-03-20 13:14           ` Michal Hocko
2015-03-20 22:51             ` Dave Chinner
2015-03-23 13:02               ` Michal Hocko
2015-03-26  9:53           ` Michal Hocko
2015-03-26 21:43             ` Dave Chinner
2015-03-30  8:22               ` Michal Hocko
2015-03-31 21:46                 ` Dave Chinner
2015-04-07 12:16                   ` Michal Hocko
2015-03-18 15:45 ` Michal Hocko
2015-03-18 21:38   ` NeilBrown
2015-03-19 13:55     ` Michal Hocko
2015-03-19 14:27       ` Michal Hocko
2015-03-20  3:57       ` Dave Chinner

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