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authorGrant Erickson <marathon96@gmail.com>2011-04-08 08:51:34 -0700
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2011-05-25 02:00:50 +0100
commit1ddd0d9a3177356f2a29c8f3826ad79e1ad18397 (patch)
tree040b7bdc00b8cba4e51440e5aa8d598555bc2678 /fs/jffs2
parent3e45cf5e85a4f344fc4c8c901ac057a2402db125 (diff)
downloadlinux-1ddd0d9a3177356f2a29c8f3826ad79e1ad18397.tar.bz2
JFFS2: retry large buffer allocations
Replace direct call to kmalloc for a potentially large, contiguous buffer allocation with one to mtd_kmalloc_up_to which helps ensure the operation can succeed under low-memory, highly- fragmented situations albeit somewhat more slowly. Signed-off-by: Grant Erickson <marathon96@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/jffs2')
-rw-r--r--fs/jffs2/scan.c19
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/scan.c b/fs/jffs2/scan.c
index b632dddcb482..8d8cd3419d02 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/scan.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/scan.c
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ int jffs2_scan_medium(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
uint32_t buf_size = 0;
struct jffs2_summary *s = NULL; /* summary info collected by the scan process */
#ifndef __ECOS
- size_t pointlen;
+ size_t pointlen, try_size;
if (c->mtd->point) {
ret = c->mtd->point(c->mtd, 0, c->mtd->size, &pointlen,
@@ -113,18 +113,21 @@ int jffs2_scan_medium(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
/* For NAND it's quicker to read a whole eraseblock at a time,
apparently */
if (jffs2_cleanmarker_oob(c))
- buf_size = c->sector_size;
+ try_size = c->sector_size;
else
- buf_size = PAGE_SIZE;
+ try_size = PAGE_SIZE;
- /* Respect kmalloc limitations */
- if (buf_size > 128*1024)
- buf_size = 128*1024;
+ D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "Trying to allocate readbuf of %zu "
+ "bytes\n", try_size));
- D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "Allocating readbuf of %d bytes\n", buf_size));
- flashbuf = kmalloc(buf_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ flashbuf = mtd_kmalloc_up_to(c->mtd, &try_size);
if (!flashbuf)
return -ENOMEM;
+
+ D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "Allocated readbuf of %zu bytes\n",
+ try_size));
+
+ buf_size = (uint32_t)try_size;
}
if (jffs2_sum_active()) {