On Wed 18-11-15 10:11:01, Michal Hocko wrote: > Besides that I fail to see why a work item would ever > want to set PF_MEMALLOC for legitimate reasons. I have done a quick git > grep over the tree and there doesn't seem to be any user.
OK, I have missed one case. xfs_btree_split_worker is really setting PF_MEMALLOC from the worker context basically to inherit the flag from kswapd. This is a legitimate use but it doesn't affect the allocation path so it is not related to this discussion. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
