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ext4: replace open coded nofail allocation in ext4_free_blocks()

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ext4_free_blocks is looping around the allocation request and mimics
__GFP_NOFAIL behavior without any allocation fallback strategy. Let's
remove the open coded loop and replace it with __GFP_NOFAIL. Without the
flag the allocator has no way to find out never-fail requirement and
cannot help in any way.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Michal Hocko 2015-07-05 12:33:44 -04:00 committed by Theodore Ts'o
parent 8974fec7d7
commit 7444a072c3
1 changed files with 5 additions and 11 deletions
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@ -4815,18 +4815,12 @@ do_more:
/*
* blocks being freed are metadata. these blocks shouldn't
* be used until this transaction is committed
*
* We use __GFP_NOFAIL because ext4_free_blocks() is not allowed
* to fail.
*/
retry:
new_entry = kmem_cache_alloc(ext4_free_data_cachep, GFP_NOFS);
if (!new_entry) {
/*
* We use a retry loop because
* ext4_free_blocks() is not allowed to fail.
*/
cond_resched();
congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50);
goto retry;
}
new_entry = kmem_cache_alloc(ext4_free_data_cachep,
GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL);
new_entry->efd_start_cluster = bit;
new_entry->efd_group = block_group;
new_entry->efd_count = count_clusters;