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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-10-16 21:36:03 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-10-16 21:36:03 -0700 |
| commit | 056cdce0d3a214158f3a4ea40887b22639f855a8 (patch) | |
| tree | 8ced4ccf6c7bac7eef49710c3cdfb0745cc85102 /fs/buffer.c | |
| parent | 0056019da4b7ee5ab51fb174fe0655278578516f (diff) | |
| parent | 57a8f0cdb87da776bf0e4ce7554a9133854fa779 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'akpm' (fixes from Andrew Morton)
Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton.
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (21 commits)
mm: revert mremap pud_free anti-fix
mm: fix BUG in __split_huge_page_pmd
swap: fix set_blocksize race during swapon/swapoff
procfs: call default get_unmapped_area on MMU-present architectures
procfs: fix unintended truncation of returned mapped address
writeback: fix negative bdi max pause
percpu_refcount: export symbols
fs: buffer: move allocation failure loop into the allocator
mm: memcg: handle non-error OOM situations more gracefully
tools/testing/selftests: fix uninitialized variable
block/partitions/efi.c: treat size mismatch as a warning, not an error
mm: hugetlb: initialize PG_reserved for tail pages of gigantic compound pages
mm/zswap: bugfix: memory leak when re-swapon
mm: /proc/pid/pagemap: inspect _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY only on present pages
mm: migration: do not lose soft dirty bit if page is in migration state
gcov: MAINTAINERS: Add an entry for gcov
mm/hugetlb.c: correct missing private flag clearing
mm/vmscan.c: don't forget to free shrinker->nr_deferred
ipc/sem.c: synchronize semop and semctl with IPC_RMID
ipc: update locking scheme comments
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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; |