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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-07-14 21:47:51 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-07-14 21:47:51 -0700
commit47188d39b5deeebf41f87a02af1b3935866364cf (patch)
tree4e7a5b4e7edfe1fd425695af0270315f2682f5a4 /fs/ext4/mballoc.c
parentad81f0545ef01ea651886dddac4bef6cec930092 (diff)
parente7676a704ee0a1ef71a6b23760b5a8f6896cb1a1 (diff)
Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 bugfixes from Ted Ts'o: "Various regression and bug fixes for ext4" * tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: ext4: don't allow ext4_free_blocks() to fail due to ENOMEM ext4: fix spelling errors and a comment in extent_status tree ext4: rate limit printk in buffer_io_error() ext4: don't show usrquota/grpquota twice in /proc/mounts ext4: fix warning in ext4_evict_inode() ext4: fix ext4_get_group_number() ext4: silence warning in ext4_writepages()
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/mballoc.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/mballoc.c11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index a9ff5e5137ca..4bbbf13bd743 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -4740,11 +4740,16 @@ do_more:
* blocks being freed are metadata. these blocks shouldn't
* be used until this transaction is committed
*/
+ retry:
new_entry = kmem_cache_alloc(ext4_free_data_cachep, GFP_NOFS);
if (!new_entry) {
- ext4_mb_unload_buddy(&e4b);
- err = -ENOMEM;
- goto error_return;
+ /*
+ * We use a retry loop because
+ * ext4_free_blocks() is not allowed to fail.
+ */
+ cond_resched();
+ congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50);
+ goto retry;
}
new_entry->efd_start_cluster = bit;
new_entry->efd_group = block_group;