From: Xiubo Li <xiu...@redhat.com> The GFP_NOIO means all further allocations will implicitly drop both __GFP_IO and __GFP_FS flags and so they are safe for both the IO critical section and the the critical section from the allocation recursion point of view. Not only the __GFP_IO, which a bit confusing when reading the code or using the save/restore pair.
Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <xiu...@redhat.com> --- include/linux/sched/mm.h | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/sched/mm.h b/include/linux/sched/mm.h index 4a7944078cc3..9bdc97e52de1 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/sched/mm.h @@ -211,10 +211,11 @@ static inline void fs_reclaim_release(gfp_t gfp_mask) { } * memalloc_noio_save - Marks implicit GFP_NOIO allocation scope. * * This functions marks the beginning of the GFP_NOIO allocation scope. - * All further allocations will implicitly drop __GFP_IO flag and so - * they are safe for the IO critical section from the allocation recursion - * point of view. Use memalloc_noio_restore to end the scope with flags - * returned by this function. + * All further allocations will implicitly drop __GFP_IO and __GFP_FS + * flags and so they are safe for both the IO critical section and the + * the critical section from the allocation recursion point of view. Use + * memalloc_noio_restore to end the scope with flags returned by this + * function. * * This function is safe to be used from any context. */ -- 2.21.0