Re: [PATCH] mm: document risk of PF_MEMALLOC_NORECLAIM

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On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 10:54:37AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> Yes, I think we should kill it before it spreads even more but I would
> not like to make the existing user just broken. I have zero visibility
> and understanding of the bcachefs code but from a quick look at __bch2_new_inode
> it shouldn't be really terribly hard to push GFP_NOWAIT flag there
> directly. >

I don't understand that sentence.  You're adding the gfp_t argument to
it, which to mean counts as pushing it there directly.


> It would require inode_init_always_gfp variant as well (to not
> touch all existing callers that do not have any locking requirements but
> I do not see any other nested allocations.

inode_init_always only has 4 callers, so I'd just add the gfp_t
argument.  Otherwise this looks good modulo the fix your posted:

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>





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