On 03/18/2015 10:09 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> page_cache_read has been historically using page_cache_alloc_cold to
> allocate a new page. This means that mapping_gfp_mask is used as the
> base for the gfp_mask. Many filesystems are setting this mask to
> GFP_NOFS to prevent from fs recursion issues. page_cache_read is,
> however, not called from the fs layer 

Is that true for filesystems that have directories in
the page cache?

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