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-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/mballoc.c11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index a9ff5e5..4bbbf13b 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;
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