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-rw-r--r--fs/jbd2/transaction.c20
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
index ff2f2e6ad311..799242cecffb 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
@@ -278,22 +278,16 @@ static int start_this_handle(journal_t *journal, handle_t *handle,
alloc_transaction:
if (!journal->j_running_transaction) {
+ /*
+ * If __GFP_FS is not present, then we may be being called from
+ * inside the fs writeback layer, so we MUST NOT fail.
+ */
+ if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) == 0)
+ gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOFAIL;
new_transaction = kmem_cache_zalloc(transaction_cache,
gfp_mask);
- if (!new_transaction) {
- /*
- * 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;
- }
+ if (!new_transaction)
return -ENOMEM;
- }
}
jbd_debug(3, "New handle %p going live.\n", handle);