On 5 Jan 2024, at 5:53, Hou Tao wrote:

> From: Hou Tao <hout...@huawei.com>
>
> When invoking virtio_fs_enqueue_req() through kworker, both the
> allocation of the sg array and the bounce buffer still use GFP_ATOMIC.
> Considering the size of both the sg array and the bounce buffer may be
> greater than PAGE_SIZE, use GFP_NOFS instead of GFP_ATOMIC to lower the
> possibility of memory allocation failure.

Perhaps not appropriate for this case, but are you aware of
memalloc_nofs_save/restore?  NFS has been converting over and cleaning out
our GFP_NOFS usage:

Documentation/core-api/gfp_mask-from-fs-io.rst

Ben


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