Re: [PATCH] zram_drv: add __GFP_NOWARN flag on call to zs_malloc

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On Wed 30-03-22 10:06:18, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 30-03-22 14:25:02, Jaewon Kim wrote:
> > The page allocation with GFP_NOIO may fail. And zram can handle this
> > allocation failure. We do not need to print log for this.
> 
> GFP_NOIO doesn't have any special meaning wrt to failures. zram
> allocates from the memory reclaim context which is a bad design IMHO.

Btw. I forgot to mention that GFP_NOIO doesn't have any different
meaning than GFP_KERNEL from this (PF_MEMALLOC) allocation context
because this request will never perform a reclaim.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs




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