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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index a9ff5e5137ca..4bbbf13bd743 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -4740,11 +4740,16 @@ do_more: * blocks being freed are metadata. these blocks shouldn't * be used until this transaction is committed */ + retry: new_entry = kmem_cache_alloc(ext4_free_data_cachep, GFP_NOFS); if (!new_entry) { - ext4_mb_unload_buddy(&e4b); - err = -ENOMEM; - goto error_return; + /* + * We use a retry loop because + * ext4_free_blocks() is not allowed to fail. + */ + cond_resched(); + congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50); + goto retry; } new_entry->efd_start_cluster = bit; new_entry->efd_group = block_group; |