[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "bufferhead: Add _gfp version for sb_getblk()" has been added to staging queue
Kamal Mostafa
kamal at canonical.com
Wed Aug 5 21:47:03 UTC 2015
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
bufferhead: Add _gfp version for sb_getblk()
to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt5.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Kamal
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>From 52a0b6ce6d189d8a9b252b068d773b5f5631f3c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nikolay Borisov <kernel at kyup.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 01:32:44 -0400
Subject: bufferhead: Add _gfp version for sb_getblk()
commit bd7ade3cd9b0850264306f5c2b79024a417b6396 upstream.
sb_getblk() is used during ext4 (and possibly other FSes) writeback
paths. Sometimes such path require allocating memory and guaranteeing
that such allocation won't block. Currently, however, there is no way
to provide user flags for sb_getblk which could lead to deadlocks.
This patch implements a sb_getblk_gfp with the only difference it can
accept user-provided GFP flags.
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel at kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
include/linux/buffer_head.h | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/buffer_head.h b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
index 73b4522..e6797de 100644
--- a/include/linux/buffer_head.h
+++ b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
@@ -317,6 +317,13 @@ sb_getblk(struct super_block *sb, sector_t block)
return __getblk_gfp(sb->s_bdev, block, sb->s_blocksize, __GFP_MOVABLE);
}
+
+static inline struct buffer_head *
+sb_getblk_gfp(struct super_block *sb, sector_t block, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+ return __getblk_gfp(sb->s_bdev, block, sb->s_blocksize, gfp);
+}
+
static inline struct buffer_head *
sb_find_get_block(struct super_block *sb, sector_t block)
{
--
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