[PATCH 4.9 028/116] ubifs: Change gfp flags in page allocation for bulk read

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Feb 13 2020 - 10:59:26 EST


From: Hyunchul Lee <cheol.lee@xxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 480a1a6a3ef6fb6be4cd2f37b34314fbf64867dd ]

In low memory situations, page allocations for bulk read
can kill applications for reclaiming memory, and print an
failure message when allocations are failed.
Because bulk read is just an optimization, we don't have
to do these and can stop page allocations.

Though this siutation happens rarely, add __GFP_NORETRY
to prevent from excessive memory reclaim and killing
applications, and __GFP_WARN to suppress this failure
message.

For this, Use readahead_gfp_mask for gfp flags when
allocating pages.

Signed-off-by: Hyunchul Lee <cheol.lee@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ubifs/file.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/file.c b/fs/ubifs/file.c
index b4fbeefba246a..f2e6162f8e656 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/file.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/file.c
@@ -721,6 +721,7 @@ static int ubifs_do_bulk_read(struct ubifs_info *c, struct bu_info *bu,
int err, page_idx, page_cnt, ret = 0, n = 0;
int allocate = bu->buf ? 0 : 1;
loff_t isize;
+ gfp_t ra_gfp_mask = readahead_gfp_mask(mapping) & ~__GFP_FS;

err = ubifs_tnc_get_bu_keys(c, bu);
if (err)
@@ -782,8 +783,7 @@ static int ubifs_do_bulk_read(struct ubifs_info *c, struct bu_info *bu,

if (page_offset > end_index)
break;
- page = find_or_create_page(mapping, page_offset,
- GFP_NOFS | __GFP_COLD);
+ page = find_or_create_page(mapping, page_offset, ra_gfp_mask);
if (!page)
break;
if (!PageUptodate(page))
--
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