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[PATCH 09/11] f2fs: Remove __GFP_NOFAIL flag from call to mempool_alloc()

From NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH 09/11] f2fs: Remove __GFP_NOFAIL flag from call to mempool_alloc()
Date 2017-04-10 04:20 +0200
Message-ID <tux5T-2WR-11@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Passing __GFP_NOFAIL to mempool_alloc() is strange
because it bypasses the pool functionality provided
by the mempool.  mempool_alloc() will not fail
even without the NOFAIL flag.

So remove the flag and allow the pool to be used properly.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
---
 fs/f2fs/data.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/data.c b/fs/f2fs/data.c
index 1602b4bccae6..7e31751ec708 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/data.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/data.c
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ static inline void __submit_bio(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi,
 		for (; start < F2FS_IO_SIZE(sbi); start++) {
 			struct page *page =
 				mempool_alloc(sbi->write_io_dummy,
-					GFP_NOIO | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_NOFAIL);
+					GFP_NOIO | __GFP_ZERO);
 			f2fs_bug_on(sbi, !page);
 
 			SetPagePrivate(page);
-- 
2.12.2

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