> Well, but reclaim from kswapd is always the main and preferred source of > memory reclaim. And we will kick kswapd to do work if we are running out of > memory. Doing direct filesystem slab reclaim from mark allocation is useful > only to throttle possibly aggressive mark allocations to the speed of > reclaim (instead of getting ENOMEM). So I'm still not convinced this is a > big issue but I certainly won't stop you from implementing more fine > grained GFP mode selection and lockdep annotations if you want to go that > way :). Well it was just two lines of code to annotate the fanotify mutex as its own class, so I just did that: https://github.com/amir73il/linux/commit/7b4b6e2c0bd1942cd130e9202c4b187a8fb468c6 Thanks, Amir.
