Jan Kara 05713082ab jbd: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL ...

The callers of start_this_handle() (or better ext3_journal_start()) are not
really prepared to handle allocation failures. Such failures can for example
result in silent data loss when it happens in ext3_..._writepage().  OTOH
__GFP_NOFAIL is going away so we just retry allocation in start_this_handle().

This loop is potentially dangerous because the oom killer cannot be invoked
for GFP_NOFS allocation, so there is a potential for infinitely looping.
But still this is better than silent data loss.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

2011-06-25 17:29:51 +02:00

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checkpoint.c

jbd: Add fixed tracepoints

2011-06-25 17:29:51 +02:00

commit.c

jbd: Add fixed tracepoints

2011-06-25 17:29:51 +02:00

journal.c

jbd: Add fixed tracepoints

2011-06-25 17:29:51 +02:00

Kconfig

Revert "task_struct: make journal_info conditional"

2009-12-17 13:23:24 -08:00

Makefile

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recovery.c

jbd: Move debug message into #ifdef area

2010-10-28 01:30:01 +02:00

revoke.c

Fix common misspellings

2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00

transaction.c

jbd: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL

2011-06-25 17:29:51 +02:00