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authorDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>2012-03-07 04:50:22 +0000
committerBen Myers <bpm@sgi.com>2012-03-15 14:54:23 -0500
commitf074211f6041305b645669464343d504f4e6a290 (patch)
tree2fd1678c72b47683e25f69e247dfecaec79e477b /fs/xfs/xfs_bmap.c
parentad650f5b27bc9858360b42aaa0d9204d16115316 (diff)
downloadlinux-f074211f6041305b645669464343d504f4e6a290.tar.gz
xfs: fallback to vmalloc for large buffers in xfs_getbmap
xfs_getbmap uses for a large buffer for extents, which is kmalloc'd.
This can fail after the system has been running for some time as it
is a high order allocation. Add a fallback to vmalloc so that it
doesn't require contiguous memory and so won't randomly fail on
files with large extent lists.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>

Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/xfs_bmap.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/xfs_bmap.c13
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap.c
index 188ef2fbd628..3548c6f75593 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap.c
@@ -5536,8 +5536,12 @@ xfs_getbmap(
 	if (bmv->bmv_count > ULONG_MAX / sizeof(struct getbmapx))
 		return XFS_ERROR(ENOMEM);
 	out = kmem_zalloc(bmv->bmv_count * sizeof(struct getbmapx), KM_MAYFAIL);
-	if (!out)
-		return XFS_ERROR(ENOMEM);
+	if (!out) {
+		out = kmem_zalloc_large(bmv->bmv_count *
+					sizeof(struct getbmapx));
+		if (!out)
+			return XFS_ERROR(ENOMEM);
+	}
 
 	xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_IOLOCK_SHARED);
 	if (whichfork == XFS_DATA_FORK && !(iflags & BMV_IF_DELALLOC)) {
@@ -5661,7 +5665,10 @@ xfs_getbmap(
 			break;
 	}
 
-	kmem_free(out);
+	if (is_vmalloc_addr(out))
+		kmem_free_large(out);
+	else
+		kmem_free(out);
 	return error;
 }