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Date:   Tue, 17 Jul 2018 14:49:30 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: vmalloc with GFP_NOFS
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On Tue 24-04-18 14:35:36, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 10:27:12AM -0600, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > fs/ext4/xattr.c
> > 
> > What to do about this? Well, there are two things. Firstly, it would be
> > really great to double check whether the GFP_NOFS is really needed. I
> > cannot judge that because I am not familiar with the code.
> 
> *Most* of the time it's not needed, but there are times when it is.
> We could be more smart about sending down GFP_NOFS only when it is
> needed.  If we are sending too many GFP_NOFS's allocations such that
> it's causing heartburn, we could fix this.  (xattr commands are rare
> enough that I dind't think it was worth it to modulate the GFP flags
> for this particular case, but we could make it be smarter if it would
> help.)

There still seem to be ext4_kvmalloc(NOFS) callers in the ext4 code. Do
you have any plans to get rid of those?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs