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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2010-07-27 11:56:05 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2010-07-27 11:56:05 -0400
commit47def82672b3ba4e7c5e9a4fe48a556f8684d0d6 (patch)
treea0cfdaca8be99980c09d2b38ff676834c85ab2c4 /include
parent40389687382bf0ae71458e7c0f828137a438a956 (diff)
jbd2: Remove __GFP_NOFAIL from jbd2 layer
__GFP_NOFAIL is going away, so add our own retry loop. Also add jbd2__journal_start() and jbd2__journal_restart() which take a gfp mask, so that file systems can optionally (re)start transaction handles using GFP_KERNEL. If they do this, then they need to be prepared to handle receiving an PTR_ERR(-ENOMEM) error, and be ready to reflect that error up to userspace. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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-rw-r--r--include/linux/jbd2.h4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/jbd2.h b/include/linux/jbd2.h
index a4d2e9f7088..5a72bc75b27 100644
--- a/include/linux/jbd2.h
+++ b/include/linux/jbd2.h
@@ -1081,7 +1081,9 @@ static inline handle_t *journal_current_handle(void)
*/
extern handle_t *jbd2_journal_start(journal_t *, int nblocks);
-extern int jbd2_journal_restart (handle_t *, int nblocks);
+extern handle_t *jbd2__journal_start(journal_t *, int nblocks, int gfp_mask);
+extern int jbd2_journal_restart(handle_t *, int nblocks);
+extern int jbd2__journal_restart(handle_t *, int nblocks, int gfp_mask);
extern int jbd2_journal_extend (handle_t *, int nblocks);
extern int jbd2_journal_get_write_access(handle_t *, struct buffer_head *);
extern int jbd2_journal_get_create_access (handle_t *, struct buffer_head *);