• Michal Hocko's avatar
    jbd2: get rid of open coded allocation retry loop · 7b506b10
    Michal Hocko authored
    insert_revoke_hash does an open coded endless allocation loop if
    journal_oom_retry is true. It doesn't implement any allocation fallback
    strategy between the retries, though. The memory allocator doesn't know
    about the never fail requirement so it cannot potentially help to move
    on with the allocation (e.g. use memory reserves).
    
    Get rid of the retry loop and use __GFP_NOFAIL instead. We will lose the
    debugging message but I am not sure it is anyhow helpful.
    
    Do the same for journal_alloc_journal_head which is doing a similar
    thing.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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