From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> journal_get_undo_access is relying on GFP_NOFS allocation yet it is essential for the journal transaction: [ 83.256914] journal_get_undo_access: No memory for committed data [ 83.258022] EXT3-fs: ext3_free_blocks_sb: aborting transaction: Out of memory in __ext3_journal_get_undo_access [ 83.259785] EXT3-fs (hdb1): error in ext3_free_blocks_sb: Out of memory [ 83.267130] Aborting journal on device hdb1. [ 83.292308] EXT3-fs (hdb1): error: ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal [ 83.293630] EXT3-fs (hdb1): error: remounting filesystem read-only Since "mm: page_alloc: do not lock up GFP_NOFS allocations upon OOM" these allocation requests are allowed to fail so we need to use __GFP_NOFAIL to imitate the previous behavior. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> --- fs/jbd/transaction.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/jbd/transaction.c b/fs/jbd/transaction.c index bf7474deda2f..6c60376a29bc 100644 --- a/fs/jbd/transaction.c +++ b/fs/jbd/transaction.c @@ -887,7 +887,7 @@ int journal_get_undo_access(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bh) repeat: if (!jh->b_committed_data) { - committed_data = jbd_alloc(jh2bh(jh)->b_size, GFP_NOFS); + committed_data = jbd_alloc(jh2bh(jh)->b_size, GFP_NOFS | __GFP_NOFAIL); if (!committed_data) { printk(KERN_ERR "%s: No memory for committed data\n", __func__); -- 2.5.0 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>