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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/buffer.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/buffer.c | 14 |
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; |