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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2012-07-18 11:17:17 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2012-07-18 11:17:17 +0200
commita2fe194723f6e4990d01d8c208c7b138fd410522 (patch)
tree7aee93fa8f4ba1e18b56fa7d8eab75d249fc6966 /fs/buffer.c
parentc3b7cdf180090d2686239a75bb0ae408108ed749 (diff)
parenta018540141a931f5299a866907b27886916b4374 (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core
Pick up the latest ring-buffer fixes, before applying a new fix. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/buffer.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/buffer.c22
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 838a9cf246bd..c7062c896d7c 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -1036,6 +1036,9 @@ grow_buffers(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, int size)
static struct buffer_head *
__getblk_slow(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, int size)
{
+ int ret;
+ struct buffer_head *bh;
+
/* Size must be multiple of hard sectorsize */
if (unlikely(size & (bdev_logical_block_size(bdev)-1) ||
(size < 512 || size > PAGE_SIZE))) {
@@ -1048,20 +1051,21 @@ __getblk_slow(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block, int size)
return NULL;
}
- for (;;) {
- struct buffer_head * bh;
- int ret;
+retry:
+ bh = __find_get_block(bdev, block, size);
+ if (bh)
+ return bh;
+ ret = grow_buffers(bdev, block, size);
+ if (ret == 0) {
+ free_more_memory();
+ goto retry;
+ } else if (ret > 0) {
bh = __find_get_block(bdev, block, size);
if (bh)
return bh;
-
- ret = grow_buffers(bdev, block, size);
- if (ret < 0)
- return NULL;
- if (ret == 0)
- free_more_memory();
}
+ return NULL;
}
/*