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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:11:19 +0530
From: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@...e.de>
To: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...tin.ibm.com>, xfs-masters@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Handle bio_alloc failure
On Tuesday 14 April 2009 16:48:38 Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14 2009, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
> > Hi Jens
> >
> > Some of the callers of bio_alloc() assume that it will never fail and
> > always return bios. But it can fail. This patch set changes those callers
> > to take action when bio_alloc() fails.
>
> It will not fail as long as __GFP_WAIT is set, which it is for all 6 of
> your patches.
I thought so, but was confused by various places where it was being handled!
Can this be merged then?
Thanks
Nikanth
bio_alloc() will not fail as long as __GFP_WAIT is set. __GFP_WAIT is also set
as part of GFP_KERNEL, GFP_NOIO and GFP_NOFS. Remove unnecessary code to
handle bio_alloc failure in those cases.
Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@...e.de>
---
diff --git a/block/blk-barrier.c b/block/blk-barrier.c
index f7dae57..20b4111 100644
--- a/block/blk-barrier.c
+++ b/block/blk-barrier.c
@@ -319,9 +319,6 @@ int blkdev_issue_flush(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t *error_sector)
return -ENXIO;
bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, 0);
- if (!bio)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
bio->bi_end_io = bio_end_empty_barrier;
bio->bi_private = &wait;
bio->bi_bdev = bdev;
diff --git a/block/ioctl.c b/block/ioctl.c
index 0f22e62..ad474d4 100644
--- a/block/ioctl.c
+++ b/block/ioctl.c
@@ -146,8 +146,6 @@ static int blk_ioctl_discard(struct block_device *bdev, uint64_t start,
struct bio *bio;
bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, 0);
- if (!bio)
- return -ENOMEM;
bio->bi_end_io = blk_ioc_discard_endio;
bio->bi_bdev = bdev;
diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
index ddae808..a3659c1 100644
--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -636,8 +636,6 @@ static int loop_switch(struct loop_device *lo, struct file *file)
{
struct switch_request w;
struct bio *bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, 0);
- if (!bio)
- return -ENOMEM;
init_completion(&w.wait);
w.file = file;
bio->bi_private = &w;
diff --git a/fs/direct-io.c b/fs/direct-io.c
index da258e7..05763bb 100644
--- a/fs/direct-io.c
+++ b/fs/direct-io.c
@@ -307,8 +307,6 @@ dio_bio_alloc(struct dio *dio, struct block_device *bdev,
struct bio *bio;
bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, nr_vecs);
- if (bio == NULL)
- return -ENOMEM;
bio->bi_bdev = bdev;
bio->bi_sector = first_sector;
diff --git a/fs/exofs/inode.c b/fs/exofs/inode.c
index ba8d9fa..ee1f438 100644
--- a/fs/exofs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/exofs/inode.c
@@ -97,15 +97,10 @@ static int pcol_try_alloc(struct page_collect *pcol)
{
int pages = min_t(unsigned, pcol->expected_pages, BIO_MAX_PAGES);
- for (; pages; pages >>= 1) {
+ if (pages)
pcol->bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, pages);
- if (likely(pcol->bio))
- return 0;
- }
- EXOFS_ERR("Failed to kcalloc expected_pages=%u\n",
- pcol->expected_pages);
- return -ENOMEM;
+ return 0;
}
static void pcol_free(struct page_collect *pcol)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index 6132353..2a1cb09 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -2416,8 +2416,6 @@ static int ext4_ext_zeroout(struct inode *inode, struct ext4_extent *ex)
len = ee_len;
bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, len);
- if (!bio)
- return -ENOMEM;
bio->bi_sector = ee_pblock;
bio->bi_bdev = inode->i_sb->s_bdev;
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c b/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c
index 51883b3..650a730 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c
@@ -272,11 +272,6 @@ static int gfs2_read_super(struct gfs2_sbd *sdp, sector_t sector)
lock_page(page);
bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOFS, 1);
- if (unlikely(!bio)) {
- __free_page(page);
- return -ENOBUFS;
- }
-
bio->bi_sector = sector * (sb->s_blocksize >> 9);
bio->bi_bdev = sb->s_bdev;
bio_add_page(bio, page, PAGE_SIZE, 0);
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
index 7ec89fc..fb4f516 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
@@ -421,10 +421,7 @@ xfs_alloc_ioend_bio(
struct bio *bio;
int nvecs = bio_get_nr_vecs(bh->b_bdev);
- do {
- bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, nvecs);
- nvecs >>= 1;
- } while (!bio);
+ bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, nvecs);
ASSERT(bio->bi_private == NULL);
bio->bi_sector = bh->b_blocknr * (bh->b_size >> 9);
diff --git a/kernel/power/swap.c b/kernel/power/swap.c
index 505f319..8ba052c 100644
--- a/kernel/power/swap.c
+++ b/kernel/power/swap.c
@@ -64,8 +64,6 @@ static int submit(int rw, pgoff_t page_off, struct page *page,
struct bio *bio;
bio = bio_alloc(__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_HIGH, 1);
- if (!bio)
- return -ENOMEM;
bio->bi_sector = page_off * (PAGE_SIZE >> 9);
bio->bi_bdev = resume_bdev;
bio->bi_end_io = end_swap_bio_read;
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