[PATCH] reiserfs: use __GFP_NOFAIL instead of yield and retry loop for allocation

From: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>

This patch replaces yield and retry loop with __GFP_NOFAIL in
alloc_journal_list(). Compile-tested only.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
---

 fs/reiserfs/journal.c |    8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Index: 2.6/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6.orig/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
+++ 2.6/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
@@ -2446,12 +2446,8 @@ static int journal_read(struct super_blo
 static struct reiserfs_journal_list *alloc_journal_list(struct super_block *s)
 {
 	struct reiserfs_journal_list *jl;
-      retry:
-	jl = kzalloc(sizeof(struct reiserfs_journal_list), GFP_NOFS);
-	if (!jl) {
-		yield();
-		goto retry;
-	}
+	jl = kzalloc(sizeof(struct reiserfs_journal_list),
+		     GFP_NOFS | __GFP_NOFAIL);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&jl->j_list);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&jl->j_working_list);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&jl->j_tail_bh_list);
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