Re: [PATCH 2/8] xfs: abstract PF_FSTRANS to PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS

["Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 03:11:01PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> 
> xfs has defined PF_FSTRANS to declare a scope GFP_NOFS semantic quite
> some time ago. We would like to make this concept more generic and use
> it for other filesystems as well. Let's start by giving the flag a
> more generic name PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS which is in line with an exiting
> PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO already used for the same purpose for GFP_NOIO
> contexts. Replace all PF_FSTRANS usage from the xfs code in the first
> step before we introduce a full API for it as xfs uses the flag directly
> anyway.
> 
> This patch doesn't introduce any functional change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

> ---
>  fs/xfs/kmem.c             |  4 ++--
>  fs/xfs/kmem.h             |  2 +-
>  fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree.c |  2 +-
>  fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c         |  6 +++---
>  fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c        | 12 ++++++------
>  include/linux/sched.h     |  2 ++
>  6 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/kmem.c b/fs/xfs/kmem.c
> index 339c696bbc01..a76a05dae96b 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/kmem.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/kmem.c
> @@ -80,13 +80,13 @@ kmem_zalloc_large(size_t size, xfs_km_flags_t flags)
>  	 * context via PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO to prevent memory reclaim re-entering
>  	 * the filesystem here and potentially deadlocking.
>  	 */
> -	if ((current->flags & PF_FSTRANS) || (flags & KM_NOFS))
> +	if ((current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS) || (flags & KM_NOFS))
>  		noio_flag = memalloc_noio_save();
>  
>  	lflags = kmem_flags_convert(flags);
>  	ptr = __vmalloc(size, lflags | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO, PAGE_KERNEL);
>  
> -	if ((current->flags & PF_FSTRANS) || (flags & KM_NOFS))
> +	if ((current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS) || (flags & KM_NOFS))
>  		memalloc_noio_restore(noio_flag);
>  
>  	return ptr;
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/kmem.h b/fs/xfs/kmem.h
> index 689f746224e7..d973dbfc2bfa 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/kmem.h
> +++ b/fs/xfs/kmem.h
> @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ kmem_flags_convert(xfs_km_flags_t flags)
>  		lflags = GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOWARN;
>  	} else {
>  		lflags = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN;
> -		if ((current->flags & PF_FSTRANS) || (flags & KM_NOFS))
> +		if ((current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS) || (flags & KM_NOFS))
>  			lflags &= ~__GFP_FS;
>  	}
>  
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree.c
> index 21e6a6ab6b9a..a2672ba4dc33 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree.c
> @@ -2866,7 +2866,7 @@ xfs_btree_split_worker(
>  	struct xfs_btree_split_args	*args = container_of(work,
>  						struct xfs_btree_split_args, work);
>  	unsigned long		pflags;
> -	unsigned long		new_pflags = PF_FSTRANS;
> +	unsigned long		new_pflags = PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS;
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * we are in a transaction context here, but may also be doing work
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
> index ef382bfb402b..d4094bb55033 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
> @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ xfs_setfilesize_trans_alloc(
>  	 * We hand off the transaction to the completion thread now, so
>  	 * clear the flag here.
>  	 */
> -	current_restore_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_FSTRANS);
> +	current_restore_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS);
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ xfs_setfilesize_ioend(
>  	 * thus we need to mark ourselves as being in a transaction manually.
>  	 * Similarly for freeze protection.
>  	 */
> -	current_set_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_FSTRANS);
> +	current_set_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS);
>  	__sb_writers_acquired(VFS_I(ip)->i_sb, SB_FREEZE_FS);
>  
>  	/* we abort the update if there was an IO error */
> @@ -1015,7 +1015,7 @@ xfs_do_writepage(
>  	 * Given that we do not allow direct reclaim to call us, we should
>  	 * never be called while in a filesystem transaction.
>  	 */
> -	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(current->flags & PF_FSTRANS))
> +	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS))
>  		goto redirty;
>  
>  	/*
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c
> index 70f42ea86dfb..f5969c8274fc 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c
> @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ xfs_trans_reserve(
>  	bool		rsvd = (tp->t_flags & XFS_TRANS_RESERVE) != 0;
>  
>  	/* Mark this thread as being in a transaction */
> -	current_set_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_FSTRANS);
> +	current_set_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS);
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * Attempt to reserve the needed disk blocks by decrementing
> @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ xfs_trans_reserve(
>  	if (blocks > 0) {
>  		error = xfs_mod_fdblocks(tp->t_mountp, -((int64_t)blocks), rsvd);
>  		if (error != 0) {
> -			current_restore_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_FSTRANS);
> +			current_restore_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS);
>  			return -ENOSPC;
>  		}
>  		tp->t_blk_res += blocks;
> @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ xfs_trans_reserve(
>  		tp->t_blk_res = 0;
>  	}
>  
> -	current_restore_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_FSTRANS);
> +	current_restore_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS);
>  
>  	return error;
>  }
> @@ -914,7 +914,7 @@ __xfs_trans_commit(
>  
>  	xfs_log_commit_cil(mp, tp, &commit_lsn, regrant);
>  
> -	current_restore_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_FSTRANS);
> +	current_restore_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS);
>  	xfs_trans_free(tp);
>  
>  	/*
> @@ -944,7 +944,7 @@ __xfs_trans_commit(
>  		if (commit_lsn == -1 && !error)
>  			error = -EIO;
>  	}
> -	current_restore_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_FSTRANS);
> +	current_restore_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS);
>  	xfs_trans_free_items(tp, NULLCOMMITLSN, !!error);
>  	xfs_trans_free(tp);
>  
> @@ -998,7 +998,7 @@ xfs_trans_cancel(
>  		xfs_log_done(mp, tp->t_ticket, NULL, false);
>  
>  	/* mark this thread as no longer being in a transaction */
> -	current_restore_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_FSTRANS);
> +	current_restore_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS);
>  
>  	xfs_trans_free_items(tp, NULLCOMMITLSN, dirty);
>  	xfs_trans_free(tp);
> diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
> index 1531c48f56e2..abeb84604d32 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -2320,6 +2320,8 @@ extern void thread_group_cputime_adjusted(struct task_struct *p, cputime_t *ut,
>  #define PF_FREEZER_SKIP	0x40000000	/* Freezer should not count it as freezable */
>  #define PF_SUSPEND_TASK 0x80000000      /* this thread called freeze_processes and should not be frozen */
>  
> +#define PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS PF_FSTRANS	/* Transition to a more generic GFP_NOFS scope semantic */
> +
>  /*
>   * Only the _current_ task can read/write to tsk->flags, but other
>   * tasks can access tsk->flags in readonly mode for example
> -- 
> 2.11.0
> 
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
> More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html