From 490c1b444ce653d0784a9a5fa4d11287029feeb9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Hocko Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 17:38:20 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] jbd2: do not fail journal because of frozen_buffer allocation failure Journal transaction might fail prematurely because the frozen_buffer is allocated by GFP_NOFS request: [ 72.440013] do_get_write_access: OOM for frozen_buffer [ 72.440014] EXT4-fs: ext4_reserve_inode_write:4729: aborting transaction: Out of memory in __ext4_journal_get_write_access [ 72.440015] EXT4-fs error (device sda1) in ext4_reserve_inode_write:4735: Out of memory (...snipped....) [ 72.495559] do_get_write_access: OOM for frozen_buffer [ 72.495560] EXT4-fs: ext4_reserve_inode_write:4729: aborting transaction: Out of memory in __ext4_journal_get_write_access [ 72.496839] do_get_write_access: OOM for frozen_buffer [ 72.496841] EXT4-fs: ext4_reserve_inode_write:4729: aborting transaction: Out of memory in __ext4_journal_get_write_access [ 72.505766] Aborting journal on device sda1-8. [ 72.505851] EXT4-fs (sda1): Remounting filesystem read-only This wasn't a problem until "mm: page_alloc: do not lock up GFP_NOFS allocations upon OOM" because small GPF_NOFS allocations never failed. This allocation seems essential for the journal and GFP_NOFS is too restrictive to the memory allocator so let's use __GFP_NOFAIL here to emulate the previous behavior. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o --- fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 22 +++++----------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c index 081dff087fc0..01e4652d88f6 100644 --- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c +++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c @@ -966,14 +966,8 @@ do_get_write_access(handle_t *handle, struct journal_head *jh, if (!frozen_buffer) { JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "allocate memory for buffer"); jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh); - frozen_buffer = jbd2_alloc(jh2bh(jh)->b_size, GFP_NOFS); - if (!frozen_buffer) { - printk(KERN_ERR "%s: OOM for frozen_buffer\n", - __func__); - JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "oom!"); - error = -ENOMEM; - goto out; - } + frozen_buffer = jbd2_alloc(jh2bh(jh)->b_size, + GFP_NOFS | __GFP_NOFAIL); goto repeat; } jh->b_frozen_data = frozen_buffer; @@ -1226,15 +1220,9 @@ int jbd2_journal_get_undo_access(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bh) goto out; repeat: - if (!jh->b_committed_data) { - committed_data = jbd2_alloc(jh2bh(jh)->b_size, GFP_NOFS); - if (!committed_data) { - printk(KERN_ERR "%s: No memory for committed data\n", - __func__); - err = -ENOMEM; - goto out; - } - } + if (!jh->b_committed_data) + committed_data = jbd2_alloc(jh2bh(jh)->b_size, + GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL); jbd_lock_bh_state(bh); if (!jh->b_committed_data) { -- GitLab