[PATCH v2] JFFS2: Retry Medium Scan Buffer Allocations

[Grant Erickson]

When handling a JFFS2 medium scan request exponentially back off on
the size of the requested scan buffer until it succeeds or until the
requested scan buffer size falls below a page. This helps ensure the
allocation and subsequent scan operation can succeed under low-memory,
highly-fragmented situations albeit somewhat more slowly.

  v2: Added __GFP_NOWARN flag as recommended by Artem.

Signed-off-by: Grant Erickson <marathon96 at gmail.com>
---
 fs/jffs2/scan.c |   11 +++++++----
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/jffs2/scan.c b/fs/jffs2/scan.c
index b632ddd..4d8746d 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/scan.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/scan.c
@@ -118,11 +118,14 @@ int jffs2_scan_medium(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
 			buf_size = PAGE_SIZE;
 
 		/* Respect kmalloc limitations */
-		if (buf_size > 128*1024)
-			buf_size = 128*1024;
+		buf_size = min_t(uint32_t, buf_size, 128*1024);
+
+		do {
+			D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "Trying to allocate readbuf of %d "
+					  "bytes\n", buf_size));
+			flashbuf = kmalloc(buf_size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
+		} while (!flashbuf && ((buf_size >>= 1) >= PAGE_SIZE));
 
-		D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "Allocating readbuf of %d bytes\n", buf_size));
-		flashbuf = kmalloc(buf_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!flashbuf)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 	}
-- 
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