Re: vmalloc with GFP_NOFS

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Am Dienstag, 24. April 2018, 18:27:12 CEST schrieb Michal Hocko:
> Hi,
> it seems that we still have few vmalloc users who perform GFP_NOFS
> allocation:
> drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c

UBI is not a big deal. We use it here like in UBIFS for debugging
when self-checks are enabled.

> fs/ext4/xattr.c
> fs/gfs2/dir.c
> fs/gfs2/quota.c
> fs/nfs/blocklayout/extent_tree.c
> fs/ubifs/debug.c
> fs/ubifs/lprops.c
> fs/ubifs/lpt_commit.c
> fs/ubifs/orphan.c

All users in UBIFS are debugging code and some error reporting.
No fast paths.
I think we can switch to prealloation + locking without much hassle.
I can prepare a patch.

Thanks,
//richard



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