jbd2: do not fail journal because of frozen_buffer allocation failure

Journal transaction might fail prematurely because the frozen_buffer
is allocated by GFP_NOFS request:
[   72.440013] do_get_write_access: OOM for frozen_buffer
[   72.440014] EXT4-fs: ext4_reserve_inode_write:4729: aborting transaction: Out of memory in __ext4_journal_get_write_access
[   72.440015] EXT4-fs error (device sda1) in ext4_reserve_inode_write:4735: Out of memory
(...snipped....)
[   72.495559] do_get_write_access: OOM for frozen_buffer
[   72.495560] EXT4-fs: ext4_reserve_inode_write:4729: aborting transaction: Out of memory in __ext4_journal_get_write_access
[   72.496839] do_get_write_access: OOM for frozen_buffer
[   72.496841] EXT4-fs: ext4_reserve_inode_write:4729: aborting transaction: Out of memory in __ext4_journal_get_write_access
[   72.505766] Aborting journal on device sda1-8.
[   72.505851] EXT4-fs (sda1): Remounting filesystem read-only

This wasn't a problem until "mm: page_alloc: do not lock up GFP_NOFS
allocations upon OOM" because small GPF_NOFS allocations never failed.
This allocation seems essential for the journal and GFP_NOFS is too
restrictive to the memory allocator so let's use __GFP_NOFAIL here to
emulate the previous behavior.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Michal Hocko 2016-03-13 17:38:20 -04:00 коммит произвёл Theodore Ts'o
Родитель adb7ef600c
Коммит 490c1b444c
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@ -966,14 +966,8 @@ repeat:
if (!frozen_buffer) {
JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "allocate memory for buffer");
jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh);
frozen_buffer = jbd2_alloc(jh2bh(jh)->b_size, GFP_NOFS);
if (!frozen_buffer) {
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: OOM for frozen_buffer\n",
__func__);
JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "oom!");
error = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
}
frozen_buffer = jbd2_alloc(jh2bh(jh)->b_size,
GFP_NOFS | __GFP_NOFAIL);
goto repeat;
}
jh->b_frozen_data = frozen_buffer;
@ -1226,15 +1220,9 @@ int jbd2_journal_get_undo_access(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bh)
goto out;
repeat:
if (!jh->b_committed_data) {
committed_data = jbd2_alloc(jh2bh(jh)->b_size, GFP_NOFS);
if (!committed_data) {
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: No memory for committed data\n",
__func__);
err = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
}
}
if (!jh->b_committed_data)
committed_data = jbd2_alloc(jh2bh(jh)->b_size,
GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL);
jbd_lock_bh_state(bh);
if (!jh->b_committed_data) {