From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Because it's more efficient than allocating pages one at a time in a loop. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c | 62 +++++++++++++++++++----------------------------- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c index b1610115d401..8ca4add138c5 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c @@ -386,10 +386,7 @@ xfs_buf_alloc_pages( xfs_buf_flags_t flags) { gfp_t gfp_mask = xb_to_gfp(flags); - size_t size; - size_t offset; - size_t nbytes; - int i; + long filled = 0; int error; /* Assure zeroed buffer for non-read cases. */ @@ -400,50 +397,39 @@ xfs_buf_alloc_pages( if (unlikely(error)) return error; - offset = bp->b_offset; bp->b_flags |= _XBF_PAGES; - for (i = 0; i < bp->b_page_count; i++) { - struct page *page; - uint retries = 0; -retry: - page = alloc_page(gfp_mask); - if (unlikely(page == NULL)) { - if (flags & XBF_READ_AHEAD) { - bp->b_page_count = i; - error = -ENOMEM; - goto out_free_pages; - } + /* + * Bulk filling of pages can take multiple calls. Not filling the entire + * array is not an allocation failure, so don't back off if we get at + * least one extra page. + */ + for (;;) { + long last = filled; - /* - * This could deadlock. - * - * But until all the XFS lowlevel code is revamped to - * handle buffer allocation failures we can't do much. - */ - if (!(++retries % 100)) - xfs_err(NULL, - "%s(%u) possible memory allocation deadlock in %s (mode:0x%x)", - current->comm, current->pid, - __func__, gfp_mask); - - XFS_STATS_INC(bp->b_mount, xb_page_retries); - congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50); - goto retry; + filled = alloc_pages_bulk_array(gfp_mask, bp->b_page_count, + bp->b_pages); + if (filled == bp->b_page_count) { + XFS_STATS_INC(bp->b_mount, xb_page_found); + break; } - XFS_STATS_INC(bp->b_mount, xb_page_found); + if (filled != last) + continue; - nbytes = min_t(size_t, size, PAGE_SIZE - offset); - size -= nbytes; - bp->b_pages[i] = page; - offset = 0; + if (flags & XBF_READ_AHEAD) { + error = -ENOMEM; + goto out_free_pages; + } + + XFS_STATS_INC(bp->b_mount, xb_page_retries); + congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50); } return 0; out_free_pages: - for (i = 0; i < bp->b_page_count; i++) - __free_page(bp->b_pages[i]); + while (--filled >= 0) + __free_page(bp->b_pages[filled]); bp->b_flags &= ~_XBF_PAGES; return error; } -- 2.31.1