Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:08:28 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc |
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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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