Hi,
I have just received a bug report about memcg OOM [1]. The underlying
issue is memcg specific but the stack trace made me look at the write(2)
patch and I have noticed that iomap_write_begin enforces AOP_FLAG_NOFS
which means that all the page cache that has to be allocated is
GFP_NOFS. What is the reason for this? Do all filesystems really need
the reclaim protection? I was hoping that those filesystems which really
need NOFS context would be using the scope API
(memalloc_nofs_{save,restore}.
Could you clarify please?
[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200414212558.58eaab4de2ecf864eaa87e5d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
