Dave Chinner wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 03:55:28PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Wed 18-03-15 10:44:11, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > 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? > > > > I haven't found any explicit callers of filemap_fault except for ocfs2 > > and ceph and those seem OK to me. Which filesystems you have in mind? > > Just about every major filesystem calls filemap_fault through the > .fault callout. > > C symbol: filemap_fault > > File Function Line > 0 9p/vfs_file.c <global> 831 .fault = filemap_fault, > 1 9p/vfs_file.c <global> 838 .fault = filemap_fault, > 2 btrfs/file.c <global> 2081 .fault = filemap_fault, > 3 cifs/file.c <global> 3242 .fault = filemap_fault, > 4 ext4/file.c <global> 215 .fault = filemap_fault, > 5 f2fs/file.c <global> 93 .fault = filemap_fault, > 6 fuse/file.c <global> 2062 .fault = filemap_fault, > 7 gfs2/file.c <global> 498 .fault = filemap_fault, > 8 nfs/file.c <global> 653 .fault = filemap_fault, > 9 nilfs2/file.c <global> 128 .fault = filemap_fault, > a ubifs/file.c <global> 1536 .fault = filemap_fault, > b xfs/xfs_file.c <global> 1420 .fault = filemap_fault, > > > > Btw. how would that work as we already have GFP_KERNEL allocation few > > lines below? > > GFP_KERNEL allocation for mappings is simply wrong. All mapping > allocations where the caller cannot pass a gfp_mask need to obey > the mapping_gfp_mask that is set by the mapping owner.... >
Is there any chance to annotate which GFP flag needs to be used like https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/17/507 ? > Cheers, > > Dave. > -- > Dave Chinner > da...@fromorbit.com > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
