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| author | Grant Erickson <marathon96@gmail.com> | 2011-04-08 08:51:34 -0700 |
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| committer | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | 2011-05-25 02:00:50 +0100 |
| commit | 1ddd0d9a3177356f2a29c8f3826ad79e1ad18397 (patch) | |
| tree | 040b7bdc00b8cba4e51440e5aa8d598555bc2678 | |
| parent | 3e45cf5e85a4f344fc4c8c901ac057a2402db125 (diff) | |
JFFS2: retry large buffer allocations
Replace direct call to kmalloc for a potentially large, contiguous
buffer allocation with one to mtd_kmalloc_up_to which helps ensure the
operation can succeed under low-memory, highly- fragmented situations
albeit somewhat more slowly.
Signed-off-by: Grant Erickson <marathon96@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/jffs2/scan.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/scan.c b/fs/jffs2/scan.c index b632dddcb48..8d8cd3419d0 100644 --- a/fs/jffs2/scan.c +++ b/fs/jffs2/scan.c @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ int jffs2_scan_medium(struct jffs2_sb_info *c) uint32_t buf_size = 0; struct jffs2_summary *s = NULL; /* summary info collected by the scan process */ #ifndef __ECOS - size_t pointlen; + size_t pointlen, try_size; if (c->mtd->point) { ret = c->mtd->point(c->mtd, 0, c->mtd->size, &pointlen, @@ -113,18 +113,21 @@ int jffs2_scan_medium(struct jffs2_sb_info *c) /* For NAND it's quicker to read a whole eraseblock at a time, apparently */ if (jffs2_cleanmarker_oob(c)) - buf_size = c->sector_size; + try_size = c->sector_size; else - buf_size = PAGE_SIZE; + try_size = PAGE_SIZE; - /* Respect kmalloc limitations */ - if (buf_size > 128*1024) - buf_size = 128*1024; + D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "Trying to allocate readbuf of %zu " + "bytes\n", try_size)); - D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "Allocating readbuf of %d bytes\n", buf_size)); - flashbuf = kmalloc(buf_size, GFP_KERNEL); + flashbuf = mtd_kmalloc_up_to(c->mtd, &try_size); if (!flashbuf) return -ENOMEM; + + D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "Allocated readbuf of %zu bytes\n", + try_size)); + + buf_size = (uint32_t)try_size; } if (jffs2_sum_active()) { |