Hi folks, We're slowly trying to move the XFS code closer to the common memory allocation routines everyone else uses. This patch set addresses a regression from a previous set of changes (kmem_realloc() removal) and removes another couple of kmem wrappers from within the XFS code. The first patch addresses a regression - using large directory blocks triggers a warning when calling krealloc() recombine a buffer split across across two log records into a single contiguous memory buffer. this results in krealloc() being called to allocate a 64kB buffer with __GFP_NOFAIL being set. This warning is trivially reproduced by generic/040 and generic/041 when run with 64kB directory block sizes on a 4kB page size machine. Log recovery really needs to use kvmalloc() like all the other "allocate up to 64kB and can't fail" cases in filesystem code (e.g. for xattrs), but there's no native kvrealloc() function that provides us with the necessary semantics. So rather than add a new wrapper, the first patch adds this helper to the common code and converts XFS to use it for log recovery. The latter two patches are removing what are essentially kvmalloc() wrappers from XFS. With the more widespread use of memalloc_nofs_save/restore(), we can call kvmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) and just have it do the right thing because GFP_NOFS contexts are covered by PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS task flags now. Hence we don't need kmem_alloc_large() anymore. And with the slab code guaranteeing at least 512 byte alignment for sector and block sized heap allocations, we no longer need the kmem_alloc_io() variant of kmem_alloc_large() for IO buffers. So these wrappers can all go away... Cheers, Dave.
