linux-kernel - [patch 5/6] ntfs: remove dependency on __GFP

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Date:	Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:58:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@...tab.net>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-ntfs-dev@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch 5/6] ntfs: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL

Removes the dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL by looping indefinitely in the
caller.

Instead of maintaining a seperate _nofail() variant, it's possible to
remove it and use ntfs_malloc_nofs() instead.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
---
 fs/ntfs/malloc.h  |   17 -----------------
 fs/ntfs/runlist.c |    6 ++++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ntfs/malloc.h b/fs/ntfs/malloc.h
--- a/fs/ntfs/malloc.h
+++ b/fs/ntfs/malloc.h
@@ -66,23 +66,6 @@ static inline void *ntfs_malloc_nofs(unsigned long size)
 	return __ntfs_malloc(size, GFP_NOFS | __GFP_HIGHMEM);
 }
 
-/**
- * ntfs_malloc_nofs_nofail - allocate memory in multiples of pages
- * @size:	number of bytes to allocate
- *
- * Allocates @size bytes of memory, rounded up to multiples of PAGE_SIZE and
- * returns a pointer to the allocated memory.
- *
- * This function guarantees that the allocation will succeed.  It will sleep
- * for as long as it takes to complete the allocation.
- *
- * If there was insufficient memory to complete the request, return NULL.
- */
-static inline void *ntfs_malloc_nofs_nofail(unsigned long size)
-{
-	return __ntfs_malloc(size, GFP_NOFS | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_NOFAIL);
-}
-
 static inline void ntfs_free(void *addr)
 {
 	if (!is_vmalloc_addr(addr)) {
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/runlist.c b/fs/ntfs/runlist.c
--- a/fs/ntfs/runlist.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/runlist.c
@@ -127,8 +127,10 @@ static inline runlist_element *ntfs_rl_realloc_nofail(runlist_element *rl,
 	if (old_size == new_size)
 		return rl;
 
-	new_rl = ntfs_malloc_nofs_nofail(new_size);
-	BUG_ON(!new_rl);
+	do {
+		/* FIXME: this may potentially loop forever */
+		new_rl = ntfs_malloc_nofs(new_size);
+	} while (!new_rl);
 
 	if (likely(rl != NULL)) {
 		if (unlikely(old_size > new_size))
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