Re: [PATCH] block,blkcg: use __GFP_NOWARN for best-effort allocations in blkcg

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue Nov 29 2016 - 11:38:20 EST


On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 08:25:07AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> --- a/include/linux/gfp.h
> +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
> @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
> #define GFP_ATOMIC (__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM)
> #define GFP_KERNEL (__GFP_RECLAIM | __GFP_IO | __GFP_FS)
> #define GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ACCOUNT)
> -#define GFP_NOWAIT (__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM)
> +#define GFP_NOWAIT (__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM|__GFP_NOWARN)
> #define GFP_NOIO (__GFP_RECLAIM)
> #define GFP_NOFS (__GFP_RECLAIM | __GFP_IO)
> #define GFP_TEMPORARY (__GFP_RECLAIM | __GFP_IO | __GFP_FS | \
>
> this will not catch users who are doing gfp & ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM but
> I would rather not make warn_alloc() even more cluttered with checks.

Yeah, FWIW, looks good to me.

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tejun