linux-kernel - [PATCH] block: discard use gfp

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Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0912301900460.25340@sister.anvils>
Date:	Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:07:47 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>
To:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] block: discard use gfp_mask

blkdev_issue_discard() takes a gfp_mask argument: usually GFP_KERNEL,
but GFP_NOIO from swap and GFP_NOFS from gfs2.  blkdev_issue_discard()
should use that for its alloc_page(), instead of assuming GFP_KERNEL.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>
---

 block/blk-barrier.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- 2.6.33-rc2/block/blk-barrier.c	2009-12-03 03:51:21.000000000 +0000
+++ linux/block/blk-barrier.c	2009-12-26 18:28:30.000000000 +0000
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ int blkdev_issue_discard(struct block_de
 		 * our current implementations need.  If we'll ever need
 		 * more the interface will need revisiting.
 		 */
-		page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
+		page = alloc_page(gfp_mask | __GFP_ZERO);
 		if (!page)
 			goto out_free_bio;
 		if (bio_add_pc_page(q, bio, page, sector_size, 0) < sector_size)
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