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Re: __link_block_group uses GFP_KERNEL

From Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
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Subject Re: __link_block_group uses GFP_KERNEL
Date 2017-03-25 00:20 +0100
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On 3/24/17 5:02 AM, Denis Kirjanov wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Looks like that current code does GFP_KERNEL allocation inside
> __link_block_group.
> the function invokes kobject_add and internally creates sysfs files
> with the GFP_KERNEL flag set.

Yep, that's a bug.

> But since do_chunk_alloc executes insides the btrfs transaction it's
> not allowed to sleep.

It's allowed to sleep but isn't allowed to do reclaim that involves file
system writeback.  Michal Hocko's allocation context idea would fix
this, but it's not there yet, so we'll need to defer the kobject_add
until we can use GFP_KERNEL.

-Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs

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__link_block_group uses GFP_KERNEL Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@cloudlinux.com> - 2017-03-24 10:10 +0100
  Re: __link_block_group uses GFP_KERNEL Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> - 2017-03-25 00:20 +0100
    Re: __link_block_group uses GFP_KERNEL Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@cloudlinux.com> - 2017-03-25 07:50 +0100

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