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    SubjectRe: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc
    On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

    > > These were added as helper functions for documentation and auditability.
    > > No future callers should be added.
    >
    > git grep GFP_NOFAIL isn't auditable enough?
    >

    I'm trying to remove that bit, and __GFP_REPEAT, to simplify and remove
    several branches from the page allocator.

    > might as well declare these functions depricated if you really want to
    > do this.
    >
    > FWIW I think mason said he'd fix btrfs to not suck like this 'soon'.
    >

    Great!


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