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| author | Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> | 2015-06-08 10:53:10 -0400 |
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| committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2015-06-08 10:53:10 -0400 |
| commit | 6ccaf3e2f302b6af8d9e17ce4e7f0af26b6baa0e (patch) | |
| tree | cc3a37a205d0fc980ff9e9788daf9526a0976532 /fs/jbd2/journal.c | |
| parent | 3dbb5eb9a3aa04f40e551338eee5e8d06f352fe8 (diff) | |
| download | linux-6ccaf3e2f302b6af8d9e17ce4e7f0af26b6baa0e.tar.bz2 | |
jbd2: revert must-not-fail allocation loops back to GFP_NOFAIL
This basically reverts 47def82672b3 (jbd2: Remove __GFP_NOFAIL from jbd2
layer). The deprecation of __GFP_NOFAIL was a bad choice because it led
to open coding the endless loop around the allocator rather than
removing the dependency on the non failing allocation. So the
deprecation was a clear failure and the reality tells us that
__GFP_NOFAIL is not even close to go away.
It is still true that __GFP_NOFAIL allocations are generally discouraged
and new uses should be evaluated and an alternative (pre-allocations or
reservations) should be considered but it doesn't make any sense to lie
the allocator about the requirements. Allocator can take steps to help
making a progress if it knows the requirements.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/jbd2/journal.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/jbd2/journal.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c index b96bd8076b70..0bc333b4a594 100644 --- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c +++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c @@ -371,16 +371,7 @@ int jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer(transaction_t *transaction, */ J_ASSERT_BH(bh_in, buffer_jbddirty(bh_in)); -retry_alloc: - new_bh = alloc_buffer_head(GFP_NOFS); - if (!new_bh) { - /* - * Failure is not an option, but __GFP_NOFAIL is going - * away; so we retry ourselves here. - */ - congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50); - goto retry_alloc; - } + new_bh = alloc_buffer_head(GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL); /* keep subsequent assertions sane */ atomic_set(&new_bh->b_count, 1); |