Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
>
> shrink_list's may_enter_fs (may_write_page would be a better name)
> currently reflects that swapcache page I/O won't suffer from FS
> complications, so can be done if __GFP_IO without __GFP_FS; but
> the same is true of a tmpfs page (which is just this stage away
> from being a swapcache page), so check bdi->memory_backed instead.
>
> ...
>
> + if (!(gfp_mask & (bdi->memory_backed?
> + __GFP_IO: __GFP_FS)))
> goto keep_locked;
Barf. I haven't used a question mark operator in ten years, and this is a
fine demonstration of why ;)
I think a feasibly comprehensible transformation would be:
/*
* A comment goes here
*/
if (bdi->memory_backed)
may_enter_fs = gfp_mask & __GFP_IO;
else
may_enter_fs = gfp_mask & __GFP_FS;
That being said, this is a bit presumptuous. PF_MEMALLOC will protect us
from infinite recursion but there are other reasons for GFP_NOFS.
For example, a memory-backed filesystem may be trying to allocate GFP_NOFS
memory while holding filesystem locks which are taken by its writepage.
How about adding a new field to backing_dev_info for this case? Damned if I
can think of a name for it though.
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