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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-10-23 16:28:39 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-10-23 16:49:34 -0400
commitc3fa32b9764dc45dcf8a2231b1c110abc4a63e0b (patch)
tree6cf2896a77b65bec64284681e1c3851eb3263e09 /fs/buffer.c
parent34d92d5315b64a3e5292b7e9511c1bb617227fb6 (diff)
parent320437af954cbe66478f1f5e8b34cb5a8d072191 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts: drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c include/net/dst.h Trivial merge conflicts, both were overlapping changes. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/buffer.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/buffer.c14
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 4d7433534f5..6024877335c 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;