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jbd: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL

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The callers of start_this_handle() (or better ext3_journal_start()) are not
really prepared to handle allocation failures. Such failures can for example
result in silent data loss when it happens in ext3_..._writepage().  OTOH
__GFP_NOFAIL is going away so we just retry allocation in start_this_handle().

This loop is potentially dangerous because the oom killer cannot be invoked
for GFP_NOFS allocation, so there is a potential for infinitely looping.
But still this is better than silent data loss.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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Jan Kara 2011-05-26 17:17:18 +02:00
parent 40680f2fa4
commit 05713082ab
1 changed files with 4 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/highmem.h>
#include <linux/hrtimer.h>
#include <linux/backing-dev.h>
static void __journal_temp_unlink_buffer(struct journal_head *jh);
@ -99,11 +100,10 @@ static int start_this_handle(journal_t *journal, handle_t *handle)
alloc_transaction:
if (!journal->j_running_transaction) {
new_transaction = kzalloc(sizeof(*new_transaction),
GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL);
new_transaction = kzalloc(sizeof(*new_transaction), GFP_NOFS);
if (!new_transaction) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50);
goto alloc_transaction;
}
}