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authorDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>2010-09-24 14:07:47 +0400
committerAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>2010-10-19 00:07:46 +0400
commit686865f76e35b28ba7aa6afa19209426f0da6201 (patch)
tree49f0ea4c6cb6ec4c71d1bce041ab21bbcd4920c8 /fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c
parentdcd79a1423f64ee0184629874805c3ac40f3a2c5 (diff)
downloadlinux-686865f76e35b28ba7aa6afa19209426f0da6201.tar.xz
xfs: rename xfs_buf_get_nodaddr to be more appropriate
xfs_buf_get_nodaddr() is really used to allocate a buffer that is uncached. While it is not directly assigned a disk address, the fact that they are not cached is a more important distinction. With the upcoming uncached buffer read primitive, we should be consistent with this disctinction. While there, make page allocation in xfs_buf_get_nodaddr() safe against memory reclaim re-entrancy into the filesystem by allowing a flags parameter to be passed. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c
index 286e36e21dae..eca945b0f88f 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c
@@ -707,9 +707,10 @@ xfs_buf_associate_memory(
}
xfs_buf_t *
-xfs_buf_get_noaddr(
+xfs_buf_get_uncached(
+ struct xfs_buftarg *target,
size_t len,
- xfs_buftarg_t *target)
+ int flags)
{
unsigned long page_count = PAGE_ALIGN(len) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
int error, i;
@@ -725,7 +726,7 @@ xfs_buf_get_noaddr(
goto fail_free_buf;
for (i = 0; i < page_count; i++) {
- bp->b_pages[i] = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+ bp->b_pages[i] = alloc_page(xb_to_gfp(flags));
if (!bp->b_pages[i])
goto fail_free_mem;
}
@@ -740,7 +741,7 @@ xfs_buf_get_noaddr(
xfs_buf_unlock(bp);
- trace_xfs_buf_get_noaddr(bp, _RET_IP_);
+ trace_xfs_buf_get_uncached(bp, _RET_IP_);
return bp;
fail_free_mem: