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Commit 81378da6 authored by Michal Hocko's avatar Michal Hocko Committed by Linus Torvalds
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jbd2: mark the transaction context with the scope GFP_NOFS context

now that we have memalloc_nofs_{save,restore} api we can mark the whole
transaction context as implicitly GFP_NOFS.  All allocations will
automatically inherit GFP_NOFS this way.  This means that we do not have
to mark any of those requests with GFP_NOFS and moreover all the
ext4_kv[mz]alloc(GFP_NOFS) are also safe now because even the hardcoded
GFP_KERNEL allocations deep inside the vmalloc will be NOFS now.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comments]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306131408.9828-7-mhocko@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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