Re: [PATCH 13/21] xfs: don't allow highmem pages in xfile mappings

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On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 02:28:55PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> XFS is generally used on 64-bit, non-highmem platforms and xfile
> mappings are accessed all the time.  Reduce our pain by not allowing
> any highmem mappings in the xfile page cache and remove all the kmap
> calls for it.

Ummm ...

> +++ b/fs/xfs/scrub/xfile.c
> @@ -77,6 +77,12 @@ xfile_create(
>  	inode = file_inode(xf->file);
>  	lockdep_set_class(&inode->i_rwsem, &xfile_i_mutex_key);
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * We don't want to bother with kmapping data during repair, so don't
> +	 * allow highmem pages to back this mapping.
> +	 */
> +	mapping_set_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping, GFP_HIGHUSER);

HIGHUSER includes __GFP_HIGHMEM.

Do you want GFP_USER?  Compared to GFP_KERNEL, it includes the "cpuset
memory allocation policy" which ... I have no idea what it means, honestly.





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