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Limit max_pages for insane devices

Intel SSDs have a limit of 0xffff as queue_max_hw_sectors(q).  Such a
limit may make sense from a hardware pov, but it causes bio_alloc() to
return NULL.

Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Joern Engel 15 years ago
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1 changed files with 6 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 6 2
      fs/logfs/dev_bdev.c

+ 6 - 2
fs/logfs/dev_bdev.c

@@ -97,8 +97,10 @@ static int __bdev_writeseg(struct super_block *sb, u64 ofs, pgoff_t index,
 	unsigned int max_pages = queue_max_hw_sectors(q) >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 9);
 	int i;
 
+	if (max_pages > BIO_MAX_PAGES)
+		max_pages = BIO_MAX_PAGES;
 	bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOFS, max_pages);
-	BUG_ON(!bio); /* FIXME: handle this */
+	BUG_ON(!bio);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
 		if (i >= max_pages) {
@@ -191,8 +193,10 @@ static int do_erase(struct super_block *sb, u64 ofs, pgoff_t index,
 	unsigned int max_pages = queue_max_hw_sectors(q) >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 9);
 	int i;
 
+	if (max_pages > BIO_MAX_PAGES)
+		max_pages = BIO_MAX_PAGES;
 	bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOFS, max_pages);
-	BUG_ON(!bio); /* FIXME: handle this */
+	BUG_ON(!bio);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) {
 		if (i >= max_pages) {