On Wed 24-07-24 06:13:31, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 11:53:49AM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > > GFP_KERNEL_NOFAIL which is GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL > > > > And probably also GFP_NOFS_NOFAIL and GFP_NOIO_NOFAIL (sigh). > > Let's not add these and force people to use the scope API which > we're trying to move to. I think we should be able to simply > have GFP_NOFAIL which includes GFP_KERNEL and no variant. Scope API is tricky here. Exactly because the scope itself could have opportunistic GFP_NOWAIT allocations. It just takes a library function to call from a scope that could become a risk because it doesn't know about potential scopes it can live in. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
