Re: [PATCH] mm: document risk of PF_MEMALLOC_NORECLAIM

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On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 10:17:54AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> Andrew, could you merge the following before PF_MEMALLOC_NORECLAIM can
> be removed from the tree altogether please? For the full context the 
> email thread starts here: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240812090525.80299-1-laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx/T/#u

I don't think that's enough.  We just need to kill it given that it was
added without ACKs and despite explicit earlier objections to the API.

That might leave bcachefs with broken inode allocation handling, but so
what - it's marked experimental and there should be other ways to sort
this out.




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