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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2011-06-30 03:44:45 +0200
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2011-06-30 03:44:45 +0200
commit275d3ba6b40d0f098693b9089c6fee9bd4e55d74 (patch)
tree0f78d9bc4fe10424a692370655d27ee6f509a470 /fs/ext4/page-io.c
parentext4: quiet 'unused variables' compile warnings (diff)
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ext4: remove loop around bio_alloc()
These days, bio_alloc() is guaranteed to never fail (as long as nvecs is less than BIO_MAX_PAGES), so we don't need the loop around the struct bio allocation. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/page-io.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/page-io.c6
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/page-io.c b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
index 7bb8f76d470a..430c401d0895 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
@@ -285,11 +285,7 @@ static int io_submit_init(struct ext4_io_submit *io,
io_end = ext4_init_io_end(inode, GFP_NOFS);
if (!io_end)
return -ENOMEM;
- do {
- bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, nvecs);
- nvecs >>= 1;
- } while (bio == NULL);
-
+ bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, min(nvecs, BIO_MAX_PAGES));
bio->bi_sector = bh->b_blocknr * (bh->b_size >> 9);
bio->bi_bdev = bh->b_bdev;
bio->bi_private = io->io_end = io_end;