Re: [PATCH 2/9] ext4: Remove uses of FGP_NOFS

From: Jan Kara

Date: Mon Aug 31 2026 - 06:23:14 EST


On Sun 30-08-26 05:18:49, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> Both of these locations are called while a transaction is in progress.
> Starting a transaction uses memalloc_nofs_save(), so we are already
> prevented from recursing into the filesystem and using GFP_NOFS was
> unnecessary.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good. Feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Honza

> ---
> fs/ext4/inline.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/inline.c b/fs/ext4/inline.c
> index ceee69a66482..1884abb09614 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/inline.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/inline.c
> @@ -601,9 +601,7 @@ static int ext4_convert_inline_data_to_extent(struct address_space *mapping,
> goto out;
> }
>
> - /* We cannot recurse into the filesystem as the transaction is already
> - * started */
> - folio = __filemap_get_folio(mapping, 0, FGP_WRITEBEGIN | FGP_NOFS,
> + folio = __filemap_get_folio(mapping, 0, FGP_WRITEBEGIN,
> mapping_gfp_mask(mapping));
> if (IS_ERR(folio)) {
> ret = PTR_ERR(folio);
> @@ -734,7 +732,7 @@ int ext4_generic_write_inline_data(struct address_space *mapping,
> goto out_release_bh;
> }
>
> - folio = __filemap_get_folio(mapping, 0, FGP_WRITEBEGIN | FGP_NOFS,
> + folio = __filemap_get_folio(mapping, 0, FGP_WRITEBEGIN,
> mapping_gfp_mask(mapping));
> if (IS_ERR(folio)) {
> ret = PTR_ERR(folio);
> --
> 2.47.3
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR