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SubjectRe: [RFC 1/1] fs/reiserfs/journal.c: Remove obsolete __GFP_NOFAIL
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 06:06:17PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
>
> The point is not to add new callers and new code should handle NULL
> correctly, not that we should run around changing current users to just do
> infinite retries. Checkpatch should have nothing to do with that.

My problem with this doctrinaire "there should never be any new users"
is that sometiems there *are* worse things than infinite retries. If
the alternative is bringing the entire system down, or livelocking the
entire system, or corrupting user data, __GFP_NOFAIL *is* the more
appropriate option.

If you try to tell those of us outside of the mm layer, "thou shalt
never use __GFP_NOFAIL in new code", and we have some new code where
the alternative is worse, we can either open-code the loop, or have
some mm hackers and/or checkpatch whine at us.

Andrew has declared that he'd prefer that we not open code the retry
loop; if you want to disagree with Andrew, feel free to pursuade him
otherwise. If you want to tell me that I should accept user data
corruption, I'm going to ignore you (and/or checkpatch).

Regards,

- Ted


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