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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:29:18 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> To: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, Alasdair G Kergon <agk@...hat.com>, Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>, Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, cluster-devel@...hat.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 03:50 -0700, David Rientjes 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? 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'. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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