On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 07:52:47AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Instead of a magic flag for xfs_trans_alloc, just ensure all callers > that can't relclaim through the file system use memalloc_nofs_save to > set the per-task nofs flag.
I'm thinking that it would be a good idea to add comments to explain exactly what the memalloc_nofs_save/restore() are protecting where they are used. Right now the XFS_TRANS_NOFS flag is largely undocumented, so a reader is left guessing as to why the flag is necessary and what contexts it may apply to. Hence I think we should fix that while we are changing over to a different GFP_NOFS allocation context mechanism.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner da...@fromorbit.com
