Merge branch 'akpm' (fixes from Andrew Morton)

Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton.

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (21 commits)
  mm: revert mremap pud_free anti-fix
  mm: fix BUG in __split_huge_page_pmd
  swap: fix set_blocksize race during swapon/swapoff
  procfs: call default get_unmapped_area on MMU-present architectures
  procfs: fix unintended truncation of returned mapped address
  writeback: fix negative bdi max pause
  percpu_refcount: export symbols
  fs: buffer: move allocation failure loop into the allocator
  mm: memcg: handle non-error OOM situations more gracefully
  tools/testing/selftests: fix uninitialized variable
  block/partitions/efi.c: treat size mismatch as a warning, not an error
  mm: hugetlb: initialize PG_reserved for tail pages of gigantic compound pages
  mm/zswap: bugfix: memory leak when re-swapon
  mm: /proc/pid/pagemap: inspect _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY only on present pages
  mm: migration: do not lose soft dirty bit if page is in migration state
  gcov: MAINTAINERS: Add an entry for gcov
  mm/hugetlb.c: correct missing private flag clearing
  mm/vmscan.c: don't forget to free shrinker->nr_deferred
  ipc/sem.c: synchronize semop and semctl with IPC_RMID
  ipc: update locking scheme comments
  ...

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 4d7433534f5c..6024877335ca 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -1005,9 +1005,19 @@ grow_dev_page(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t block,
         struct buffer_head *bh;
         sector_t end_block;
         int ret = 0;            /* Will call free_more_memory() */
+        gfp_t gfp_mask;
 
-        page = find_or_create_page(inode->i_mapping, index,
-                (mapping_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping) & ~__GFP_FS)|__GFP_MOVABLE);
+        gfp_mask = mapping_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping) & ~__GFP_FS;
+        gfp_mask |= __GFP_MOVABLE;
+        /*
+         * XXX: __getblk_slow() can not really deal with failure and
+         * will endlessly loop on improvised global reclaim.  Prefer
+         * looping in the allocator rather than here, at least that
+         * code knows what it's doing.
+         */
+        gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOFAIL;
+
+        page = find_or_create_page(inode->i_mapping, index, gfp_mask);
         if (!page)
                 return ret;