Hi Zhang,

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:39:55AM +0800, Zhang Zhen wrote:
> __add_ino_entry is looping around the allocation request and minics
> __GFP_NOFAIL behavior without any allocation fallback strategy.
> Here remove the open coded loop and replace it with __GFP_NOFAIL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zh...@huawei.com>
> ---
>  fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c | 7 +------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
> index b70bbe1..d62363b 100644
> --- a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
> +++ b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
> @@ -337,12 +337,7 @@ retry:
> 
>       e = radix_tree_lookup(&im->ino_root, ino);
>       if (!e) {
> -             e = kmem_cache_alloc(ino_entry_slab, GFP_ATOMIC);
> -             if (!e) {
> -                     spin_unlock(&im->ino_lock);
> -                     radix_tree_preload_end();
> -                     goto retry;
> -             }
> +             e = kmem_cache_alloc(ino_entry_slab, GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOFAIL);

I submitted a patch to replace GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_NOFS.
We can avoid to use GFP_ATOMIC here, right?

Thanks,

>               if (radix_tree_insert(&im->ino_root, ino, e)) {
>                       spin_unlock(&im->ino_lock);
>                       kmem_cache_free(ino_entry_slab, e);
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 
> 
> .
> 
> 
> 
> 
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