UBIFS: do not allocate too much
Bulk-read allocates 128KiB or more using kmalloc. The allocation
starts failing often when the memory gets fragmented. UBIFS still
works fine in this case, because it falls-back to standard
(non-optimized) read method, though. This patch teaches bulk-read
to allocate exactly the amount of memory it needs, instead of
allocating 128KiB every time.
This patch is also a preparation to the further fix where we'll
have a pre-allocated bulk-read buffer as well. For example, now
the @bu object is prepared in 'ubifs_bulk_read()', so we could
path either pre-allocated or allocated information to
'ubifs_do_bulk_read()' later. Or teaching 'ubifs_do_bulk_read()'
not to allocate 'bu->buf' if it is already there.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/ubifs.h b/fs/ubifs/ubifs.h
index 06ba51e..870b5c4 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/ubifs.h
+++ b/fs/ubifs/ubifs.h
@@ -969,7 +969,7 @@
* @mst_node: master node
* @mst_offs: offset of valid master node
* @mst_mutex: protects the master node area, @mst_node, and @mst_offs
- * @bulk_read_buf_size: buffer size for bulk-reads
+ * @max_bu_buf_len: maximum bulk-read buffer length
*
* @log_lebs: number of logical eraseblocks in the log
* @log_bytes: log size in bytes
@@ -1217,7 +1217,7 @@
struct ubifs_mst_node *mst_node;
int mst_offs;
struct mutex mst_mutex;
- int bulk_read_buf_size;
+ int max_bu_buf_len;
int log_lebs;
long long log_bytes;
