On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 03:33:19PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > > I do not see this a problem. There is no real reason to have a NOWAIT > > allocation down the stack that has a different fallback strategy. > > I am not saying that this is the current practice because I do not know > > that but I am saying that this is not impossible to imagine and it makes > > scoped NOFAIL context subtle and error prone. > > I don't think Christoph proposed scoped NOFAIL, just use scoped NOFS/NOIO > together with GFP_KERNEL_NOFAIL intead of introducing GFP_NOFS_NOFAIL. Yes, exactly. And I didn't think Michal thought I meant something different, maybe that's why it felt really confusing.
