From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: vmalloc with GFP_NOFS Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 14:09:27 -0600 Message-ID: <20180424200927.GU17484@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <20180424162712.GL17484@dhcp22.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: LKML , Artem Bityutskiy , Richard Weinberger , David Woodhouse , Brian Norris , Boris Brezillon , Marek Vasut , Cyrille Pitchen , Theodore Ts'o , Andreas Dilger , Bob Peterson , Trond Myklebust , Anna Schumaker , Adrian Hunter , Philippe Ombredanne , Kate Stewart , Mikulas Patocka , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-ext4@vger.kerne To: Steven Whitehouse Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Tue 24-04-18 20:26:23, Steven Whitehouse wrote: [...] > It would be good to fix this, and it has been known as an issue for a long > time. We might well be able to make use of the new API though. It might be > as simple as adding the calls when we get & release glocks, but I'd have to > check the code to be sure, Yeah, starting with annotating those locking contexts and how document how their are used in the reclaim is the great first step. This has to be done per-fs obviously. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs