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-rw-r--r--fs/buffer.c14
-rw-r--r--mm/memcontrol.c2
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 4d7433534f5..6024877335c 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -1005,9 +1005,19 @@ grow_dev_page(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block,
struct buffer_head *bh;
sector_t end_block;
int ret = 0; /* Will call free_more_memory() */
+ gfp_t gfp_mask;
- page = find_or_create_page(inode->i_mapping, index,
- (mapping_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping) & ~__GFP_FS)|__GFP_MOVABLE);
+ gfp_mask = mapping_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping) & ~__GFP_FS;
+ gfp_mask |= __GFP_MOVABLE;
+ /*
+ * XXX: __getblk_slow() can not really deal with failure and
+ * will endlessly loop on improvised global reclaim. Prefer
+ * looping in the allocator rather than here, at least that
+ * code knows what it's doing.
+ */
+ gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOFAIL;
+
+ page = find_or_create_page(inode->i_mapping, index, gfp_mask);
if (!page)
return ret;
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 65fc6a44984..34d3ca9572d 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2766,6 +2766,8 @@ done:
return 0;
nomem:
*ptr = NULL;
+ if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)
+ return 0;
return -ENOMEM;
bypass:
*ptr = root_mem_cgroup;