Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm-current tree with the block tree

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Sun Nov 01 2015 - 13:39:01 EST


On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 02:51:25AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Today's linux-next merge of the akpm-current tree got a conflict in:
>
> block/blk-mq.c
>
> between commit:
>
> 3ef28e83ab15 ("block: generic request_queue reference counting")
>
> from the block tree and commit:
>
> 7cc8e61bde7a ("mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd")
> 415a13cc1c3c ("mm, page_alloc: rename __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM")
>
> from the akpm-current tree.
>
> I fixed it up (the code updated in the latter was moved by the former,
> so I applied the following merge fix patch) and can carry the fix as
> necessary (no action is required).
>
> From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 02:49:02 +1100
> Subject: [PATCH] block: fixes for __GPF_WAIT changes
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> block/blk-core.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
> index 9e32f0868e36..6f2c263f478b 100644
> --- a/block/blk-core.c
> +++ b/block/blk-core.c
> @@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ int blk_queue_enter(struct request_queue *q, gfp_t gfp)
> if (percpu_ref_tryget_live(&q->q_usage_counter))
> return 0;
>
> - if (!(gfp & __GFP_WAIT))
> + if (!gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp))
> return -EBUSY;
>
> ret = wait_event_interruptible(q->mq_freeze_wq,
> @@ -2038,7 +2038,7 @@ void generic_make_request(struct bio *bio)
> do {
> struct request_queue *q = bdev_get_queue(bio->bi_bdev);
>
> - if (likely(blk_queue_enter(q, __GFP_WAIT) == 0)) {
> + if (likely(blk_queue_enter(q, __GFP_RECLAIM) == 0)) {
>
> q->make_request_fn(q, bio);
>

Hi Stephen,

___GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is more appropriate than __GFP_RECLAIM in the
second hunk.

Thanks.

--
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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