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authorDarrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>2017-03-06 11:58:20 -0800
committerDarrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>2017-03-07 20:10:50 -0800
commit08b005f1333154ae5b404ca28766e0ffb9f1c150 (patch)
tree5179a760a440e2a62b4058b8811200234cd3c934 /fs/xfs/kmem.c
parentd5825712ee98d68a2c17bc89dad2c30276894cba (diff)
downloadlinux-08b005f1333154ae5b404ca28766e0ffb9f1c150.tar.bz2
xfs: remove kmem_zalloc_greedy
The sole remaining caller of kmem_zalloc_greedy is bulkstat, which uses it to grab 1-4 pages for staging of inobt records. The infinite loop in the greedy allocation function is causing hangs[1] in generic/269, so just get rid of the greedy allocator in favor of kmem_zalloc_large. This makes bulkstat somewhat more likely to ENOMEM if there's really no pages to spare, but eliminates a source of hangs. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170301044634.rgidgdqqiiwsmfpj%40XZHOUW.usersys.redhat.com Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> --- v2: remove single-page fallback
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/kmem.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/kmem.c18
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/kmem.c b/fs/xfs/kmem.c
index 2dfdc62f795e..70a5b55e0870 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/kmem.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/kmem.c
@@ -25,24 +25,6 @@
#include "kmem.h"
#include "xfs_message.h"
-/*
- * Greedy allocation. May fail and may return vmalloced memory.
- */
-void *
-kmem_zalloc_greedy(size_t *size, size_t minsize, size_t maxsize)
-{
- void *ptr;
- size_t kmsize = maxsize;
-
- while (!(ptr = vzalloc(kmsize))) {
- if ((kmsize >>= 1) <= minsize)
- kmsize = minsize;
- }
- if (ptr)
- *size = kmsize;
- return ptr;
-}
-
void *
kmem_alloc(size_t size, xfs_km_flags_t flags)
{