jbd2: revert must-not-fail allocation loops back to GFP_NOFAIL

This basically reverts 47def82672b3 (jbd2: Remove __GFP_NOFAIL from jbd2
layer). The deprecation of __GFP_NOFAIL was a bad choice because it led
to open coding the endless loop around the allocator rather than
removing the dependency on the non failing allocation. So the
deprecation was a clear failure and the reality tells us that
__GFP_NOFAIL is not even close to go away.

It is still true that __GFP_NOFAIL allocations are generally discouraged
and new uses should be evaluated and an alternative (pre-allocations or
reservations) should be considered but it doesn't make any sense to lie
the allocator about the requirements. Allocator can take steps to help
making a progress if it knows the requirements.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
index ff2f2e6ad311..799242cecffb 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
@@ -278,22 +278,16 @@ static int start_this_handle(journal_t *journal, handle_t *handle,
 
 alloc_transaction:
 	if (!journal->j_running_transaction) {
+		/*
+		 * If __GFP_FS is not present, then we may be being called from
+		 * inside the fs writeback layer, so we MUST NOT fail.
+		 */
+		if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) == 0)
+			gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOFAIL;
 		new_transaction = kmem_cache_zalloc(transaction_cache,
 						    gfp_mask);
-		if (!new_transaction) {
-			/*
-			 * If __GFP_FS is not present, then we may be
-			 * being called from inside the fs writeback
-			 * layer, so we MUST NOT fail.  Since
-			 * __GFP_NOFAIL is going away, we will arrange
-			 * to retry the allocation ourselves.
-			 */
-			if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_FS) == 0) {
-				congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50);
-				goto alloc_transaction;
-			}
+		if (!new_transaction)
 			return -ENOMEM;
-		}
 	}
 
 	jbd_debug(3, "New handle %p going live.\n", handle);