xfs: remove kmem_zalloc_greedy
The sole remaining caller of kmem_zalloc_greedy is bulkstat, which uses it to grab 1-4 pages for staging of inobt records. The infinite loop in the greedy allocation function is causing hangs[1] in generic/269, so just get rid of the greedy allocator in favor of kmem_zalloc_large. This makes bulkstat somewhat more likely to ENOMEM if there's really no pages to spare, but eliminates a source of hangs. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170301044634.rgidgdqqiiwsmfpj%40XZHOUW.usersys.redhat.comSigned-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> --- v2: remove single-page fallback
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