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>
diff --git a/fs/logfs/dev_bdev.c b/fs/logfs/dev_bdev.c
index 9718c22..f99f5dc 100644
--- a/fs/logfs/dev_bdev.c
+++ b/fs/logfs/dev_bdev.c
@@ -97,8 +97,10 @@
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 @@
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) {
