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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/buffer.c | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memcontrol.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index 4d7433534f5c..6024877335ca 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -1005,9 +1005,19 @@ grow_dev_page(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, struct buffer_head *bh; sector_t end_block; int ret = 0; /* Will call free_more_memory() */ + gfp_t gfp_mask; - page = find_or_create_page(inode->i_mapping, index, - (mapping_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping) & ~__GFP_FS)|__GFP_MOVABLE); + gfp_mask = mapping_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping) & ~__GFP_FS; + gfp_mask |= __GFP_MOVABLE; + /* + * XXX: __getblk_slow() can not really deal with failure and + * will endlessly loop on improvised global reclaim. Prefer + * looping in the allocator rather than here, at least that + * code knows what it's doing. + */ + gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOFAIL; + + page = find_or_create_page(inode->i_mapping, index, gfp_mask); if (!page) return ret; diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 65fc6a449841..34d3ca9572d6 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -2766,6 +2766,8 @@ done: return 0; nomem: *ptr = NULL; + if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL) + return 0; return -ENOMEM; bypass: *ptr = root_mem_cgroup; |