On Apr 27, 2016, at 5:54 AM, Michal Hocko <mho...@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> From: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>
> 
> xfs has defined PF_FSTRANS to declare a scope GFP_NOFS semantic quite
> some time ago. We would like to make this concept more generic and use
> it for other filesystems as well. Let's start by giving the flag a
> more genric name PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS which is in line with an exiting
> PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO already used for the same purpose for GFP_NOIO
> contexts. Replace all PF_FSTRANS usage from the xfs code in the first
> step before we introduce a full API for it as xfs uses the flag directly
> anyway.
> 
> This patch doesn't introduce any functional change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>
> ---
> Hi,
> as suggested by Dave, I have split up [1] into two parts. The first one
> addes a new PF flag which is just an alias to the existing PF_FSTRANS
> and does all the renaming and the second one to introduce the generic
> API which only changes the bare minimum in the xfs proper.
> 
> fs/xfs/kmem.c             |  4 ++--
> fs/xfs/kmem.h             |  2 +-
> fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree.c |  2 +-
> fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c         |  6 +++---
> fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c        | 12 ++++++------
> include/linux/sched.h     |  2 ++
> 6 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/kmem.c b/fs/xfs/kmem.c
> index 686ba6fb20dd..73f6ab59c664 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/kmem.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/kmem.c
> @@ -80,13 +80,13 @@ kmem_zalloc_large(size_t size, xfs_km_flags_t flags)
>        * context via PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO to prevent memory reclaim re-entering
>        * the filesystem here and potentially deadlocking.
>        */
> -     if ((current->flags & PF_FSTRANS) || (flags & KM_NOFS))
> +     if ((current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS) || (flags & KM_NOFS))
>               noio_flag = memalloc_noio_save();
> 
>       lflags = kmem_flags_convert(flags);
>       ptr = __vmalloc(size, lflags | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO, PAGE_KERNEL);
> 
> -     if ((current->flags & PF_FSTRANS) || (flags & KM_NOFS))
> +     if ((current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS) || (flags & KM_NOFS))
>               memalloc_noio_restore(noio_flag);

Not really the fault of this patch, but it brings this nasty bit of code into
the light.  Is all of this machinery still needed given that __vmalloc() can
accept GFP flags?  If yes, wouldn't it be better to fix __vmalloc() to honor
the GFP flags instead of working around it in the filesystem code?

Cheers, Andreas

>       return ptr;
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/kmem.h b/fs/xfs/kmem.h
> index d1c66e465ca5..0d83f332e5c2 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/kmem.h
> +++ b/fs/xfs/kmem.h
> @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ kmem_flags_convert(xfs_km_flags_t flags)
>               lflags = GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOWARN;
>       } else {
>               lflags = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN;
> -             if ((current->flags & PF_FSTRANS) || (flags & KM_NOFS))
> +             if ((current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS) || (flags & KM_NOFS))
>                       lflags &= ~__GFP_FS;
>       }
> 
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree.c
> index a0eb18ce3ad3..326566f4a131 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_btree.c
> @@ -2540,7 +2540,7 @@ xfs_btree_split_worker(
>       struct xfs_btree_split_args     *args = container_of(work,
>                                               struct xfs_btree_split_args, 
> work);
>       unsigned long           pflags;
> -     unsigned long           new_pflags = PF_FSTRANS;
> +     unsigned long           new_pflags = PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS;
> 
>       /*
>        * we are in a transaction context here, but may also be doing work
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
> index d12dfcfd0cc8..6d816ff0b763 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
> @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ xfs_setfilesize_trans_alloc(
>        * We hand off the transaction to the completion thread now, so
>        * clear the flag here.
>        */
> -     current_restore_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_FSTRANS);
> +     current_restore_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS);
>       return 0;
> }
> 
> @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ xfs_setfilesize_ioend(
>        * thus we need to mark ourselves as being in a transaction manually.
>        * Similarly for freeze protection.
>        */
> -     current_set_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_FSTRANS);
> +     current_set_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS);
>       __sb_writers_acquired(VFS_I(ip)->i_sb, SB_FREEZE_FS);
> 
>       /* we abort the update if there was an IO error */
> @@ -979,7 +979,7 @@ xfs_vm_writepage(
>        * Given that we do not allow direct reclaim to call us, we should
>        * never be called while in a filesystem transaction.
>        */
> -     if (WARN_ON_ONCE(current->flags & PF_FSTRANS))
> +     if (WARN_ON_ONCE(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS))
>               goto redirty;
> 
>       /* Is this page beyond the end of the file? */
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c
> index 748b16aff45a..1d247366c733 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c
> @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ xfs_trans_reserve(
>       bool            rsvd = (tp->t_flags & XFS_TRANS_RESERVE) != 0;
> 
>       /* Mark this thread as being in a transaction */
> -     current_set_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_FSTRANS);
> +     current_set_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS);
> 
>       /*
>        * Attempt to reserve the needed disk blocks by decrementing
> @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ xfs_trans_reserve(
>       if (blocks > 0) {
>               error = xfs_mod_fdblocks(tp->t_mountp, -((int64_t)blocks), 
> rsvd);
>               if (error != 0) {
> -                     current_restore_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_FSTRANS);
> +                     current_restore_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, 
> PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS);
>                       return -ENOSPC;
>               }
>               tp->t_blk_res += blocks;
> @@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ xfs_trans_reserve(
>               tp->t_blk_res = 0;
>       }
> 
> -     current_restore_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_FSTRANS);
> +     current_restore_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS);
> 
>       return error;
> }
> @@ -921,7 +921,7 @@ __xfs_trans_commit(
> 
>       xfs_log_commit_cil(mp, tp, &commit_lsn, regrant);
> 
> -     current_restore_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_FSTRANS);
> +     current_restore_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS);
>       xfs_trans_free(tp);
> 
>       /*
> @@ -951,7 +951,7 @@ __xfs_trans_commit(
>               if (commit_lsn == -1 && !error)
>                       error = -EIO;
>       }
> -     current_restore_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_FSTRANS);
> +     current_restore_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS);
>       xfs_trans_free_items(tp, NULLCOMMITLSN, !!error);
>       xfs_trans_free(tp);
> 
> @@ -1005,7 +1005,7 @@ xfs_trans_cancel(
>               xfs_log_done(mp, tp->t_ticket, NULL, false);
> 
>       /* mark this thread as no longer being in a transaction */
> -     current_restore_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_FSTRANS);
> +     current_restore_flags_nested(&tp->t_pflags, PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS);
> 
>       xfs_trans_free_items(tp, NULLCOMMITLSN, dirty);
>       xfs_trans_free(tp);
> diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
> index acfc32b30704..820db8f98bfc 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -2115,6 +2115,8 @@ extern void thread_group_cputime_adjusted(struct 
> task_struct *p, cputime_t *ut,
> #define PF_FREEZER_SKIP       0x40000000      /* Freezer should not count it 
> as freezable */
> #define PF_SUSPEND_TASK 0x80000000      /* this thread called 
> freeze_processes and should not be frozen */
> 
> +#define PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS PF_FSTRANS  /* Transition to a more generic 
> GFP_NOFS scope semantic */
> +
> /*
>  * Only the _current_ task can read/write to tsk->flags, but other
>  * tasks can access tsk->flags in readonly mode for example
> --
> 2.8.0.rc3
> 
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Cheers, Andreas





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