From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: add PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 13:15:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160427111555.GJ2179@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32e220de-6028-a32c-e6a5-6935b97d277d@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
On Wed 27-04-16 19:53:21, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
[...]
> > Let's hope that filesystems will drop direct GFP_NOFS (resp. ~__GFP_FS)
> > usage as much and possible and only use a properly documented
> > memalloc_nofs_{save,restore} checkpoints where they are appropriate.
>
> Is the story simple enough to monotonically replace GFP_NOFS/GFP_NOIO
> with GFP_KERNEL after memalloc_no{fs,io}_{save,restore} are inserted?
> We sometimes delegate some operations to somebody else. Don't we need to
> convey PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS/PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO flags to APIs which interact with
> other threads?
We can add an api to do that if that is really needed.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-27 11:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-26 11:56 [PATCH 0/2] scop GFP_NOFS api Michal Hocko
2016-04-26 11:56 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: add PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS Michal Hocko
2016-04-26 23:07 ` Dave Chinner
2016-04-27 7:51 ` Michal Hocko
2016-04-27 10:53 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-04-27 11:15 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2016-04-27 14:44 ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-04-27 20:05 ` Michal Hocko
2016-04-27 11:54 ` [PATCH 1.1/2] xfs: abstract PF_FSTRANS to PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS Michal Hocko
2016-04-27 11:54 ` [PATCH 1.2/2] mm: introduce memalloc_nofs_{save,restore} API Michal Hocko
2016-04-27 13:07 ` Michal Hocko
2016-04-27 20:09 ` Michal Hocko
2016-04-27 20:30 ` Michal Hocko
2016-04-27 21:14 ` Michal Hocko
2016-04-27 17:41 ` [PATCH 1.1/2] xfs: abstract PF_FSTRANS to PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS Andreas Dilger
2016-04-27 19:43 ` Michal Hocko
2016-04-26 11:56 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm, debug: report when GFP_NO{FS,IO} is used explicitly from memalloc_no{fs,io}_{save,restore} context Michal Hocko
2016-04-26 22:58 ` Dave Chinner
2016-04-27 8:03 ` Michal Hocko
2016-04-27 22:55 ` Dave Chinner
2016-04-28 8:17 ` Michal Hocko
2016-04-28 21:51 ` Dave Chinner
2016-04-29 12:12 ` Michal Hocko
2016-04-29 23:40 ` Dave Chinner
2016-05-03 15:38 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-04 0:07 ` Dave Chinner
2016-04-29 5:35 ` [PATCH 0/2] scop GFP_NOFS api NeilBrown
2016-04-29 10:20 ` [Cluster-devel] " Steven Whitehouse
2016-04-30 21:17 ` NeilBrown
2016-04-29 12:04 ` Michal Hocko
2016-04-30 0:24 ` Dave Chinner
2016-04-30 21:55 ` NeilBrown
2016-05-03 15:13 ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-03 23:26 ` NeilBrown
2016-04-30 0:11 ` Dave Chinner
2016-04-30 22:19 ` NeilBrown
2016-05-04 1:00 ` Dave Chinner
2016-05-06 3:20 ` NeilBrown
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