staging: comedi: usbdux: allocating too much data

[karo-tx-linux.git] / fs / ext4 / mballoc.c

diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index a9ff5e5137ca85306f408eda2cab09669962f603..4bbbf13bd7435fd2181aee091dfd6212347463da 100644 (file)
--- 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;