From: David Rientjes Subject: [patch 3/5] fs: add nofail variant of alloc_buffer_head Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:50:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Steven Whitehouse , Jens Axboe , Jan Kara , cluster-devel@redhat.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org Add alloc_buffer_head_nofail(). This function is equivalent to alloc_buffer_head(), except that it will never return NULL and instead loop forever trying to allocate memory. If the first allocation attempt fails, a warning will be emitted, including a call trace. Subsequent failures will suppress this warning. This was added as a helper function for documentation and auditability. No future callers should be added. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes --- fs/buffer.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ fs/gfs2/log.c | 2 +- fs/jbd/journal.c | 2 +- include/linux/buffer_head.h | 1 + 4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -3238,6 +3238,24 @@ struct buffer_head *alloc_buffer_head(gfp_t gfp_flags) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_buffer_head); +/* + * NOTE: no new callers of this function should be implemented! + * All memory allocations should be failable whenever possible. + */ +struct buffer_head *alloc_buffer_head_nofail(gfp_t gfp_flags) +{ + struct buffer_head *ret; + + for (;;) { + ret = alloc_buffer_head(gfp_flags); + if (ret) + return ret; + WARN_ONCE(1, "Out of memory; no fallback implemented " + "(flags=0x%x)\n", + gfp_flags); + } +} + void free_buffer_head(struct buffer_head *bh) { BUG_ON(!list_empty(&bh->b_assoc_buffers)); diff --git a/fs/gfs2/log.c b/fs/gfs2/log.c --- a/fs/gfs2/log.c +++ b/fs/gfs2/log.c @@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ struct buffer_head *gfs2_log_fake_buf(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, u64 blkno = log_bmap(sdp, sdp->sd_log_flush_head); struct buffer_head *bh; - bh = alloc_buffer_head(GFP_NOFS | __GFP_NOFAIL); + bh = alloc_buffer_head_nofail(GFP_NOFS); atomic_set(&bh->b_count, 1); bh->b_state = (1 << BH_Mapped) | (1 << BH_Uptodate) | (1 << BH_Lock); set_bh_page(bh, real->b_page, bh_offset(real)); diff --git a/fs/jbd/journal.c b/fs/jbd/journal.c --- a/fs/jbd/journal.c +++ b/fs/jbd/journal.c @@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ int journal_write_metadata_buffer(transaction_t *transaction, */ J_ASSERT_BH(bh_in, buffer_jbddirty(bh_in)); - new_bh = alloc_buffer_head(GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL); + new_bh = alloc_buffer_head_nofail(GFP_NOFS); /* keep subsequent assertions sane */ new_bh->b_state = 0; init_buffer(new_bh, NULL, NULL); diff --git a/include/linux/buffer_head.h b/include/linux/buffer_head.h --- a/include/linux/buffer_head.h +++ b/include/linux/buffer_head.h @@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ void __breadahead(struct block_device *, sector_t block, unsigned int size); struct buffer_head *__bread(struct block_device *, sector_t block, unsigned size); void invalidate_bh_lrus(void); struct buffer_head *alloc_buffer_head(gfp_t gfp_flags); +struct buffer_head *alloc_buffer_head_nofail(gfp_t gfp_flags); void free_buffer_head(struct buffer_head * bh); void unlock_buffer(struct buffer_head *bh); void __lock_buffer(struct buffer_head *bh);