linux-ext4 - [PATCH 2/5] ext4 : Update low level ext4 journal routines to specify gfp

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Date:	Sun, 24 Apr 2011 17:13:18 -0700
From:	Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@...il.com>
To:	ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Manish Katiyar <manish.katiyar@...ibm.com>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Subject: [PATCH 2/5] ext4 : Update low level ext4 journal routines to specify
 gfp_mask for transaction allocation.

Update low level ext4 journal routines to pass an extra parameter
to journal allocation routines to specify whether transaction allocation
can fail or not. With this patch ext4_journal_start() can fail due to
ENOMEM. Added a new interface ext4_journal_start_tryhard() which isn't
supposed to fail and keep retrying till the allocation succeeds.


Signed-off-by: Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@...il.com>
---
 fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h |    8 +++++++-
 fs/ext4/super.c     |   15 +++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h
index d0f5353..ee6385c 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.h
@@ -162,6 +162,7 @@ int __ext4_handle_dirty_super(const char *where,
unsigned int line,
 	__ext4_handle_dirty_super(__func__, __LINE__, (handle), (sb))

 handle_t *ext4_journal_start_sb(struct super_block *sb, int nblocks);
+handle_t *ext4_journal_start_sb_tryhard(struct super_block *sb, int nblocks);
 int __ext4_journal_stop(const char *where, unsigned int line,
handle_t *handle);

 #define EXT4_NOJOURNAL_MAX_REF_COUNT ((unsigned long) 4096)
@@ -207,6 +208,11 @@ static inline handle_t *ext4_journal_start(struct
inode *inode, int nblocks)
 	return ext4_journal_start_sb(inode->i_sb, nblocks);
 }

+static inline handle_t *ext4_journal_start_tryhard(struct inode
*inode, int nblocks)
+{
+	return ext4_journal_start_sb_tryhard(inode->i_sb, nblocks);
+}
+
 #define ext4_journal_stop(handle) \
 	__ext4_journal_stop(__func__, __LINE__, (handle))

@@ -225,7 +231,7 @@ static inline int ext4_journal_extend(handle_t
*handle, int nblocks)
 static inline int ext4_journal_restart(handle_t *handle, int nblocks)
 {
 	if (ext4_handle_valid(handle))
-		return jbd2_journal_restart(handle, nblocks);
+		return jbd2_journal_restart(handle, nblocks, false);
 	return 0;
 }

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 8553dfb..03eac6a 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -247,7 +247,8 @@ static void ext4_put_nojournal(handle_t *handle)
  * ext4 prevents a new handle from being started by s_frozen, which
  * is in an upper layer.
  */
-handle_t *ext4_journal_start_sb(struct super_block *sb, int nblocks)
+static handle_t *__ext4_journal_start_sb(struct super_block *sb,
+					 int nblocks, bool errok)
 {
 	journal_t *journal;
 	handle_t  *handle;
@@ -279,7 +280,17 @@ handle_t *ext4_journal_start_sb(struct
super_block *sb, int nblocks)
 		ext4_abort(sb, "Detected aborted journal");
 		return ERR_PTR(-EROFS);
 	}
-	return jbd2_journal_start(journal, nblocks);
+	return jbd2_journal_start(journal, nblocks, errok);
+}
+
+handle_t *ext4_journal_start_sb(struct super_block *sb, int nblocks)
+{
+	return __ext4_journal_start_sb(sb, nblocks, true);
+}
+
+handle_t *ext4_journal_start_sb_tryhard(struct super_block *sb, int nblocks)
+{
+	return __ext4_journal_start_sb(sb, nblocks, false);
 }

 /*
-- 
1.7.1

-- 
Thanks -
Manish

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