On Wed 18-11-15 10:11:01, Michal Hocko wrote: > Besides that I fail to see why a work item would ever > want to set PF_MEMALLOC for legitimate reasons. I have done a quick git > grep over the tree and there doesn't seem to be any user. OK, I have missed one case. xfs_btree_split_worker is really setting PF_MEMALLOC from the worker context basically to inherit the flag from kswapd. This is a legitimate use but it doesn't affect the allocation path so it is not related to this discussion. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>