Re: vmalloc with GFP_NOFS

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Tue Jul 17 2018 - 08:47:12 EST


On Tue 24-04-18 21:03:43, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 24. April 2018, 18:27:12 CEST schrieb Michal Hocko:
> > fs/ubifs/debug.c
>
> This one is just for debugging.
> So, preallocating + locking would not hurt much.
>
> > fs/ubifs/lprops.c
>
> Ditto.
>
> > fs/ubifs/lpt_commit.c
>
> Here we use it also only in debugging mode and in one case for
> fatal error reporting.
> No hot paths.
>
> > fs/ubifs/orphan.c
>
> Also only for debugging.
> Getting rid of vmalloc with GFP_NOFS in UBIFS is no big problem.
> I can prepare a patch.

Hi Richard, I have just got back to this and noticed that the vmalloc
NOFS usage is still there. Do you have any plans to push changes to
remove it?
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs