[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "bufferhead: Add _gfp version for sb_getblk()" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Sep 3 10:37:17 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-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt17.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From cb1e4748f1cb53523127a2466115481d788137d5 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: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques 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 73b45225a7ca..e6797ded700e 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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