[PATCH] Manage jbd allocations from its own slabs

JBD currently allocates commit and frozen buffers from slabs.  With
CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG, its possible for an allocation to cross the page
boundary causing IO problems.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200127

So, instead of allocating these from regular slabs - manage allocation from
its own slabs and disable slab debug for these slabs.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/jbd/commit.c b/fs/jbd/commit.c
index 0971814c38b8..42da60784311 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/commit.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/commit.c
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ void journal_commit_transaction(journal_t *journal)
                         struct buffer_head *bh = jh2bh(jh);
 
                         jbd_lock_bh_state(bh);
-                        kfree(jh->b_committed_data);
+                        jbd_slab_free(jh->b_committed_data, bh->b_size);
                         jh->b_committed_data = NULL;
                         jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh);
                 }
@@ -745,14 +745,14 @@ restart_loop:
                  * Otherwise, we can just throw away the frozen data now.
                  */
                 if (jh->b_committed_data) {
-                        kfree(jh->b_committed_data);
+                        jbd_slab_free(jh->b_committed_data, bh->b_size);
                         jh->b_committed_data = NULL;
                         if (jh->b_frozen_data) {
                                 jh->b_committed_data = jh->b_frozen_data;
                                 jh->b_frozen_data = NULL;
                         }
                 } else if (jh->b_frozen_data) {
-                        kfree(jh->b_frozen_data);
+                        jbd_slab_free(jh->b_frozen_data, bh->b_size);
                         jh->b_frozen_data = NULL;
                 }