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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c
index 4c44bc3786c0..4e41130f206f 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c
@@ -185,7 +185,15 @@ xlog_cil_alloc_shadow_bufs(
*/
kmem_free(lip->li_lv_shadow);
- lv = kmem_alloc_large(buf_size, KM_NOFS);
+ /*
+ * We are in transaction context, which means this
+ * allocation will pick up GFP_NOFS from the
+ * memalloc_nofs_save/restore context the transaction
+ * holds. This means we can use GFP_KERNEL here so the
+ * generic kvmalloc() code will run vmalloc on
+ * contiguous page allocation failure as we require.
+ */
+ lv = kvmalloc(buf_size, GFP_KERNEL);
memset(lv, 0, xlog_cil_iovec_space(niovecs));
lv->lv_item = lip;