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authormartin coulon <martinusbe@gmail.com>2018-07-11 23:20:51 +0200
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2018-07-11 23:20:51 +0200
commit14c6f2d81a3d3f0ab7e3a8a73714d16a64bd420d (patch)
tree9216b5b9335d52a6134c26b5bf54ef2e5c7fdf13 /drivers/md
parent32769b627546b549eaaa5e60dfa761a38f87da88 (diff)
parent29b340530c2f792a824afdbcd3b1cc0a47e9b631 (diff)
Merge pull request #51 from nathanchance/8.1HEADp9.0o8.1
Merge 3.18.115 into 8.1
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/dm-bufio.c15
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
index a673f0e7a9a7..1cf56302edcd 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
@@ -761,12 +761,14 @@ enum new_flag {
static struct dm_buffer *__alloc_buffer_wait_no_callback(struct dm_bufio_client *c, enum new_flag nf)
{
struct dm_buffer *b;
+ bool tried_noio_alloc = false;
/*
* dm-bufio is resistant to allocation failures (it just keeps
* one buffer reserved in cases all the allocations fail).
* So set flags to not try too hard:
- * GFP_NOIO: don't recurse into the I/O layer
+ * GFP_NOWAIT: don't wait; if we need to sleep we'll release our
+ * mutex and wait ourselves.
* __GFP_NORETRY: don't retry and rather return failure
* __GFP_NOMEMALLOC: don't use emergency reserves
* __GFP_NOWARN: don't print a warning in case of failure
@@ -776,7 +778,7 @@ static struct dm_buffer *__alloc_buffer_wait_no_callback(struct dm_bufio_client
*/
while (1) {
if (dm_bufio_cache_size_latch != 1) {
- b = alloc_buffer(c, GFP_NOIO | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN);
+ b = alloc_buffer(c, GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN);
if (b)
return b;
}
@@ -784,6 +786,15 @@ static struct dm_buffer *__alloc_buffer_wait_no_callback(struct dm_bufio_client
if (nf == NF_PREFETCH)
return NULL;
+ if (dm_bufio_cache_size_latch != 1 && !tried_noio_alloc) {
+ dm_bufio_unlock(c);
+ b = alloc_buffer(c, GFP_NOIO | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN);
+ dm_bufio_lock(c);
+ if (b)
+ return b;
+ tried_noio_alloc = true;
+ }
+
if (!list_empty(&c->reserved_buffers)) {
b = list_entry(c->reserved_buffers.next,
struct dm_buffer, lru_list);