Re: [PATCH] vmalloc: add warning in __vmalloc

[Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>]

On Thu, 3 May 2012, Minchan Kim wrote:
> On 05/03/2012 04:46 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Well.  What are we actually doing here?  Causing the kernel to spew a
> > warning due to known-buggy callsites, so that users will report the
> > warnings, eventually goading maintainers into fixing their stuff.
> > 
> > This isn't very efficient :(
> 
> 
> Yes. I hope maintainers fix it before merging this.
> 
> > 
> > It would be better to fix that stuff first, then add the warning to
> > prevent reoccurrences.  Yes, maintainers are very naughty and probably
> > do need cattle prods^W^W warnings to motivate them to fix stuff, but we
> > should first make an effort to get these things fixed without
> > irritating and alarming our users.  
> > 
> > Where are these offending callsites?

Okay, maybe this is a stupid question, but: if an fs can't call vmalloc 
with GFP_NOFS without risking deadlock, calling with GFP_KERNEL instead 
doesn't fix anything (besides being more honest).  This really means that 
vmalloc is effectively off-limits for file systems in any 
writeback-related path, right?

sage


> 
> 
> dm:
> __alloc_buffer_wait_no_callback
> 
> ubi:
> ubi_dbg_check_write
> ubi_dbg_check_all_ff
> 
> ext4 :
> ext4_kvmalloc
> 
> gfs2 :
> gfs2_alloc_sort_buffer
> 
> ntfs :
> __ntfs_malloc
> 
> ubifs :
> dbg_dump_leb
> scan_check_cb
> dump_lpt_leb
> dbg_check_ltab_lnum
> dbg_scan_orphans
> 
> mm :
> alloc_large_system_hash
> 
> ceph :
> fill_inode
> ceph_setxattr
> ceph_removexattr
> ceph_x_build_authorizer
> ceph_decode_buffer
> ceph_alloc_middle
> 
> 
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> Minchan Kim
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