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Re: [RFC 4/8] jbd, jbd2: Do not fail journal because of frozen_buffer allocation failure

From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Date: 2015-08-05 11:42:35
Also in: linux-btrfs, linux-fsdevel, linux-mm, lkml

On Wed 05-08-15 11:51:20, mhocko@kernel.org wrote:
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

Journal transaction might fail prematurely because the frozen_buffer
is allocated by GFP_NOFS request:
[   72.440013] do_get_write_access: OOM for frozen_buffer
[   72.440014] EXT4-fs: ext4_reserve_inode_write:4729: aborting transaction: Out of memory in __ext4_journal_get_write_access
[   72.440015] EXT4-fs error (device sda1) in ext4_reserve_inode_write:4735: Out of memory
(...snipped....)
[   72.495559] do_get_write_access: OOM for frozen_buffer
[   72.495560] EXT4-fs: ext4_reserve_inode_write:4729: aborting transaction: Out of memory in __ext4_journal_get_write_access
[   72.496839] do_get_write_access: OOM for frozen_buffer
[   72.496841] EXT4-fs: ext4_reserve_inode_write:4729: aborting transaction: Out of memory in __ext4_journal_get_write_access
[   72.505766] Aborting journal on device sda1-8.
[   72.505851] EXT4-fs (sda1): Remounting filesystem read-only

This wasn't a problem until "mm: page_alloc: do not lock up GFP_NOFS
allocations upon OOM" because small GPF_NOFS allocations never failed.
This allocation seems essential for the journal and GFP_NOFS is too
restrictive to the memory allocator so let's use __GFP_NOFAIL here to
emulate the previous behavior.

jbd code has the very same issue so let's do the same there as well.
The patch looks good. Btw, the patch 6 can be folded into this patch since
it fixes the issue you fix for jbd2 here... But jbd parts will be dropped
in the next merge window anyway so it doesn't really matter.

You can add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>

								Honza
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
---
 fs/jbd/transaction.c  | 11 +----------
 fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 14 +++-----------
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/jbd/transaction.c b/fs/jbd/transaction.c
index 1695ba8334a2..bf7474deda2f 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/transaction.c
@@ -673,16 +673,7 @@ do_get_write_access(handle_t *handle, struct journal_head *jh,
 				jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh);
 				frozen_buffer =
 					jbd_alloc(jh2bh(jh)->b_size,
-							 GFP_NOFS);
-				if (!frozen_buffer) {
-					printk(KERN_ERR
-					       "%s: OOM for frozen_buffer\n",
-					       __func__);
-					JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "oom!");
-					error = -ENOMEM;
-					jbd_lock_bh_state(bh);
-					goto done;
-				}
+							 GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL);
 				goto repeat;
 			}
 			jh->b_frozen_data = frozen_buffer;
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
index ff2f2e6ad311..bff071e21553 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
@@ -923,16 +923,7 @@ do_get_write_access(handle_t *handle, struct journal_head *jh,
 				jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh);
 				frozen_buffer =
 					jbd2_alloc(jh2bh(jh)->b_size,
-							 GFP_NOFS);
-				if (!frozen_buffer) {
-					printk(KERN_ERR
-					       "%s: OOM for frozen_buffer\n",
-					       __func__);
-					JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "oom!");
-					error = -ENOMEM;
-					jbd_lock_bh_state(bh);
-					goto done;
-				}
+							 GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL);
 				goto repeat;
 			}
 			jh->b_frozen_data = frozen_buffer;
@@ -1157,7 +1148,8 @@ int jbd2_journal_get_undo_access(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bh)
 
 repeat:
 	if (!jh->b_committed_data) {
-		committed_data = jbd2_alloc(jh2bh(jh)->b_size, GFP_NOFS);
+		committed_data = jbd2_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
-- 
Jan Kara [off-list ref]
SUSE Labs, CR

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