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authorDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>2013-12-16 02:04:49 -0800
committerDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>2013-12-16 02:04:49 -0800
commit348324c5b10bcba8d9daabdfb85a6927311be34f (patch)
treed06ca3a264407a14a1f36c1b798d6dc0dc1582d8 /fs/buffer.c
parent1e63bd9cc43db5400a1423a7ec8266b4e7c54bd0 (diff)
parent319e2e3f63c348a9b66db4667efa73178e18b17d (diff)
Merge tag 'v3.13-rc4' into next
Synchronize with mainline to bring in the new keycode definitions and new hwmon API.
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;