xfs: remove kmem_zalloc_greedy

The sole remaining caller of kmem_zalloc_greedy is bulkstat, which uses
it to grab 1-4 pages for staging of inobt records.  The infinite loop in
the greedy allocation function is causing hangs[1] in generic/269, so
just get rid of the greedy allocator in favor of kmem_zalloc_large.
This makes bulkstat somewhat more likely to ENOMEM if there's really no
pages to spare, but eliminates a source of hangs.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170301044634.rgidgdqqiiwsmfpj%40XZHOUW.usersys.redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
v2: remove single-page fallback

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/kmem.c b/fs/xfs/kmem.c
index 2dfdc62..70a5b55 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/kmem.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/kmem.c
@@ -25,24 +25,6 @@
 #include "kmem.h"
 #include "xfs_message.h"
 
-/*
- * Greedy allocation.  May fail and may return vmalloced memory.
- */
-void *
-kmem_zalloc_greedy(size_t *size, size_t minsize, size_t maxsize)
-{
-	void		*ptr;
-	size_t		kmsize = maxsize;
-
-	while (!(ptr = vzalloc(kmsize))) {
-		if ((kmsize >>= 1) <= minsize)
-			kmsize = minsize;
-	}
-	if (ptr)
-		*size = kmsize;
-	return ptr;
-}
-
 void *
 kmem_alloc(size_t size, xfs_km_flags_t flags)
 {