Re: [PATCH, RFC] block: set noio context in submit_bio_noacct_nocheck

[Jens Axboe]

On 1/25/24 1:10 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 08:40:28AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 1/24/24 2:39 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> Make sure all in-line block layer submission runs in noio reclaim
>>> context.  This is a big step towards allowing GFP_NOIO, the other
>>> one would be to have noio (and nofs for that matter) workqueues for
>>> kblockd and driver internal workqueues.
>>
>> I really don't like adding this for no good reason. Who's doing non NOIO
>> allocations down from this path?
> 
> If there is a non-NOIO allocation right now that would be a bug,
> although I would not be surprised if we had a few of them.
> 
> The reason to add this is a different one:  The MM folks want to
> get rid of GFP_NOIO and GFP_NOFS and replace them by these context.
> 
> And doing this in the submission path and kblockd will cover almost
> all of the noio context, with the rest probably covered by other
> workqueues.  And this feels a lot less error prone than requiring
> every driver to annotate the context in their submission routines.

I think it'd be much better to add a DEBUG protected aid that checks for
violating allocations. Nothing that isn't buggy should trigger this,
right now, and then we could catch problems if there are any. If we do
the save/restore there and call it good, then we're going to be stuck
with that forever. Regardless of whether it's actually needed or not.

-- 
Jens Axboe