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ext4: drop ext4_kvmalloc()
authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Thu, 16 Jan 2020 15:08:16 +0000 (10:08 -0500)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Fri, 17 Jan 2020 21:24:55 +0000 (16:24 -0500)
commit71b565ceff377a52e7d58cd871745cd339447323
tree6fdc718a22a935b62f47fad5b03359fec15f4ce0
parenta54d8d34d2354f3a2a9dda00d9dd6666a50c486b
ext4: drop ext4_kvmalloc()

As Jan pointed out[1], as of commit 81378da64de ("jbd2: mark the
transaction context with the scope GFP_NOFS context") we use
memalloc_nofs_{save,restore}() while a jbd2 handle is active.  So
ext4_kvmalloc() so we can call allocate using GFP_NOFS is no longer
necessary.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200109100007.GC27035@quack2.suse.cz

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200116155031.266620-1-tytso@mit.edu
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
fs/ext4/ext4.h
fs/ext4/resize.c
fs/ext4/super.c
fs/ext4/xattr.c