bio_alloc never returns NULL when it can sleep.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Acked-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
npg = min(npg, BIO_MAX_PAGES);
bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, npg);
- if (!bio && (current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC)) {
- while (!bio && (npg /= 2))
- bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, npg);
- }
-
if (bio) {
bio->bi_iter.bi_sector = disk_sector;
bio_set_dev(bio, bdev);