[PATCH 0/5] block: remove gfp_mask for blkdev_zone_mgmt()

Johannes Thumshirn johannes.thumshirn at wdc.com
Tue Jan 23 01:43:41 PST 2024


Fueled by the LSFMM discussion on removing GFP_NOFS initiated by Willy,
I've looked into the sole GFP_NOFS allocation in zonefs. As it turned out,
it is only done for zone management commands and can be removed.

After digging into more callers of blkdev_zone_mgmt() I came to the
conclusion that the gfp_mask parameter can be removed alltogether.

So this series switches all callers of blkdev_zone_mgmt() to either use
GFP_KERNEL where possible or grab a memalloc_no{fs,io} context.

The final patch in this series is getting rid of the gfp_mask parameter.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZZcgXI46AinlcBDP@casper.infradead.org/

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Johannes Thumshirn (5):
      zonefs: pass GFP_KERNEL to blkdev_zone_mgmt() call
      dm: dm-zoned: pass GFP_KERNEL to blkdev_zone_mgmt
      btrfs: zoned: call blkdev_zone_mgmt in nofs scope
      f2fs: guard blkdev_zone_mgmt with nofs scope
      block: remove gfp_flags from blkdev_zone_mgmt

 block/blk-zoned.c              | 19 ++++++++-----------
 drivers/md/dm-zoned-metadata.c |  2 +-
 drivers/nvme/target/zns.c      |  5 ++---
 fs/btrfs/zoned.c               | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 fs/f2fs/segment.c              | 15 ++++++++++++---
 fs/zonefs/super.c              |  2 +-
 include/linux/blkdev.h         |  2 +-
 7 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 7ed2632ec7d72e926b9e8bcc9ad1bb0cd37274bf
change-id: 20240110-zonefs_nofs-dd1e22b2e046

Best regards,
-- 
Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn at wdc.com>




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