[PATCH 1/5] f2fs: rewrite f2fs_bio_alloc to make it simpler

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From: Namjae Jeon <hidden>
Date: 2012-12-08 05:54:04
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Subsystem: f2fs file system, filesystems (vfs and infrastructure), the rest · Maintainers: Jaegeuk Kim, Chao Yu, Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, Linus Torvalds

From: Namjae Jeon <redacted>

Since, GFP_NOFS(__GFP_WAIT) is used for allocation requests of bio in f2fs.
So, there is no chance of returning NULL from the BIO allocation.

Making the bio allocation routine for f2fs simpler.

Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Amit Sahrawat <redacted>
---
 fs/f2fs/segment.c |   24 +++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/segment.c b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
index 969df1a..8894b39 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/segment.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/segment.c
@@ -647,28 +647,18 @@ struct bio *f2fs_bio_alloc(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t first_sector,
 					int nr_vecs, gfp_t gfp_flags)
 {
 	struct bio *bio;
-repeat:
+
 	/* allocate new bio */
 	bio = bio_alloc(gfp_flags, nr_vecs);
 
-	if (bio == NULL && (current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC)) {
-		while (!bio && (nr_vecs /= 2))
-			bio = bio_alloc(gfp_flags, nr_vecs);
-	}
-	if (bio) {
-		bio->bi_bdev = bdev;
-		bio->bi_sector = first_sector;
+	bio->bi_bdev = bdev;
+	bio->bi_sector = first_sector;
 retry:
-		bio->bi_private = kmalloc(sizeof(struct bio_private),
-						GFP_NOFS | __GFP_HIGH);
-		if (!bio->bi_private) {
-			cond_resched();
-			goto retry;
-		}
-	}
-	if (bio == NULL) {
+	bio->bi_private = kmalloc(sizeof(struct bio_private),
+					GFP_NOFS | __GFP_HIGH);
+	if (!bio->bi_private) {
 		cond_resched();
-		goto repeat;
+		goto retry;
 	}
 	return bio;
 }
-- 
1.7.9.5
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