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    xfs: kill XBF_DONTBLOCK · aa5c158e
    Dave Chinner authored
    Just about all callers of xfs_buf_read() and xfs_buf_get() use XBF_DONTBLOCK.
    This is used to make memory allocation use GFP_NOFS rather than GFP_KERNEL to
    avoid recursion through memory reclaim back into the filesystem.
    
    All the blocking get calls in growfs occur inside a transaction, even though
    they are no part of the transaction, so all allocation will be GFP_NOFS due to
    the task flag PF_TRANS being set. The blocking read calls occur during log
    recovery, so they will probably be unaffected by converting to GFP_NOFS
    allocations.
    
    Hence make XBF_DONTBLOCK behaviour always occur for buffers and kill the flag.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
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