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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2010-07-27 11:56:05 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2010-07-27 11:56:05 -0400
commit47def82672b3ba4e7c5e9a4fe48a556f8684d0d6 (patch)
treea0cfdaca8be99980c09d2b38ff676834c85ab2c4 /fs/jbd2/transaction.c
parent40389687382bf0ae71458e7c0f828137a438a956 (diff)
jbd2: Remove __GFP_NOFAIL from jbd2 layer
__GFP_NOFAIL is going away, so add our own retry loop. Also add jbd2__journal_start() and jbd2__journal_restart() which take a gfp mask, so that file systems can optionally (re)start transaction handles using GFP_KERNEL. If they do this, then they need to be prepared to handle receiving an PTR_ERR(-ENOMEM) error, and be ready to reflect that error up to userspace. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/jbd2/transaction.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/jbd2/transaction.c61
1 files changed, 42 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
index e214d68620a..001e95fb0fe 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/highmem.h>
#include <linux/hrtimer.h>
+#include <linux/backing-dev.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
static void __jbd2_journal_temp_unlink_buffer(struct journal_head *jh);
@@ -83,30 +85,38 @@ jbd2_get_transaction(journal_t *journal, transaction_t *transaction)
* transaction's buffer credits.
*/
-static int start_this_handle(journal_t *journal, handle_t *handle)
+static int start_this_handle(journal_t *journal, handle_t *handle,
+ int gfp_mask)
{
transaction_t *transaction;
int needed;
int nblocks = handle->h_buffer_credits;
transaction_t *new_transaction = NULL;
- int ret = 0;
unsigned long ts = jiffies;
if (nblocks > journal->j_max_transaction_buffers) {
printk(KERN_ERR "JBD: %s wants too many credits (%d > %d)\n",
current->comm, nblocks,
journal->j_max_transaction_buffers);
- ret = -ENOSPC;
- goto out;
+ return -ENOSPC;
}
alloc_transaction:
if (!journal->j_running_transaction) {
- new_transaction = kzalloc(sizeof(*new_transaction),
- GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL);
+ new_transaction = kzalloc(sizeof(*new_transaction), gfp_mask);
if (!new_transaction) {
- ret = -ENOMEM;
- goto out;
+ /*
+ * If __GFP_FS is not present, then we may be
+ * being called from inside the fs writeback
+ * layer, so we MUST NOT fail. Since
+ * __GFP_NOFAIL is going away, we will arrange
+ * to retry the allocation ourselves.
+ */
+ if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) == 0) {
+ congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50);
+ goto alloc_transaction;
+ }
+ return -ENOMEM;
}
}
@@ -123,8 +133,8 @@ repeat_locked:
if (is_journal_aborted(journal) ||
(journal->j_errno != 0 && !(journal->j_flags & JBD2_ACK_ERR))) {
spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
- ret = -EROFS;
- goto out;
+ kfree(new_transaction);
+ return -EROFS;
}
/* Wait on the journal's transaction barrier if necessary */
@@ -240,10 +250,8 @@ repeat_locked:
spin_unlock(&journal->j_state_lock);
lock_map_acquire(&handle->h_lockdep_map);
-out:
- if (unlikely(new_transaction)) /* It's usually NULL */
- kfree(new_transaction);
- return ret;
+ kfree(new_transaction);
+ return 0;
}
static struct lock_class_key jbd2_handle_key;
@@ -278,7 +286,7 @@ static handle_t *new_handle(int nblocks)
*
* Return a pointer to a newly allocated handle, or NULL on failure
*/
-handle_t *jbd2_journal_start(journal_t *journal, int nblocks)
+handle_t *jbd2__journal_start(journal_t *journal, int nblocks, int gfp_mask)
{
handle_t *handle = journal_current_handle();
int err;
@@ -298,7 +306,7 @@ handle_t *jbd2_journal_start(journal_t *journal, int nblocks)
current->journal_info = handle;
- err = start_this_handle(journal, handle);
+ err = start_this_handle(journal, handle, gfp_mask);
if (err < 0) {
jbd2_free_handle(handle);
current->journal_info = NULL;
@@ -308,6 +316,15 @@ handle_t *jbd2_journal_start(journal_t *journal, int nblocks)
out:
return handle;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(jbd2__journal_start);
+
+
+handle_t *jbd2_journal_start(journal_t *journal, int nblocks)
+{
+ return jbd2__journal_start(journal, nblocks, GFP_NOFS);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(jbd2_journal_start);
+
/**
* int jbd2_journal_extend() - extend buffer credits.
@@ -394,8 +411,7 @@ out:
* transaction capabable of guaranteeing the requested number of
* credits.
*/
-
-int jbd2_journal_restart(handle_t *handle, int nblocks)
+int jbd2__journal_restart(handle_t *handle, int nblocks, int gfp_mask)
{
transaction_t *transaction = handle->h_transaction;
journal_t *journal = transaction->t_journal;
@@ -428,10 +444,17 @@ int jbd2_journal_restart(handle_t *handle, int nblocks)
lock_map_release(&handle->h_lockdep_map);
handle->h_buffer_credits = nblocks;
- ret = start_this_handle(journal, handle);
+ ret = start_this_handle(journal, handle, gfp_mask);
return ret;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(jbd2__journal_restart);
+
+int jbd2_journal_restart(handle_t *handle, int nblocks)
+{
+ return jbd2__journal_restart(handle, nblocks, GFP_NOFS);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(jbd2_journal_restart);
/**
* void jbd2_journal_lock_updates () - establish a transaction barrier.