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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fs/ext4/mballoc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/kernel/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index 8d1e60214..41260489d 100644 --- a/kernel/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/kernel/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -4800,18 +4800,12 @@ 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; |