Re: [PATCH] mm: shmem: use proper gfp flags for shmem_writepage()

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On Thu, 7 Nov 2019, Yang Shi wrote:
> On 11/6/19 10:59 AM, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > Yes, I don't think it fixes any actual problem: just a cleanup to
> > make the two calls look the same when they don't need to be different
> > (whereas the call from __read_swap_cache_async() rightly uses a
> > lower priority gfp).
> 
> I'm supposed it is because __read_swap_cache_async()is typically called from
> page fault context which is less crucial than reclaim.

Exactly.

> 
> Shall I consider this as an ack but with commit log rephrased to reflect the
> cleanup?

Okay,
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>




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