Hello,
I see that in kernel code we have couple of places where kvmalloc is
used with GFP_NOFS flag:
git grep kvmalloc.*NOFS
fs/bcachefs/journal_io.c: new_buf = kvmalloc(new_size,
GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOWARN);
fs/ext4/xattr.c: buffer = kvmalloc(value_size, GFP_NOFS);
fs/f2fs/compress.c: cc->private =
f2fs_kvmalloc(F2FS_I_SB(cc->inode), size, GFP_NOFS);
net/ceph/osdmap.c: state = kvmalloc(array_size(max,
sizeof(*state)), GFP_NOFS);
net/ceph/osdmap.c: weight = kvmalloc(array_size(max,
sizeof(*weight)), GFP_NOFS);
net/ceph/osdmap.c: addr = kvmalloc(array_size(max, sizeof(*addr)),
GFP_NOFS);
and with GFP_NOIO flag too:
git grep kvmalloc.*NOIO
drivers/md/dm-integrity.c: recalc_tags = kvmalloc(recalc_tags_size,
GFP_NOIO);
drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c: dmi = kvmalloc(param_kernel->data_size, GFP_NOIO
| __GFP_HIGH);
net/ceph/messenger_v2.c: buf = kvmalloc(len, GFP_NOIO);
net/ceph/osdmap.c: work = kvmalloc(work_size, GFP_NOIO);
And AFAIU documentation
https://docs.kernel.org/core-api/gfp_mask-from-fs-io.html#what-about-vmalloc-gfp-nofs
vmalloc allocation with GFP_NOFS may end up doing "GFP_KERNEL
allocations deep inside the allocator", which can potentially lead to
deadlock in IO/FS code paths.
Does it mean that we should rework all those paths to memalloc_noio_save
/ memalloc_noio_restore variant? Or is it already safe to use
kvmalloc(GFP_NOIO) in modern kernel?
Or maybe I misunderstand something, sorry in advance if that's the case.
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Best regards, Tikhomirov Pavel
Senior Software Developer, Virtuozzo.
