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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:30:42 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> To: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>, 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>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>, "linux-raid@...r.kernel.org" <linux-raid@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>, "cluster-devel@...hat.com" <cluster-devel@...hat.com>, "linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, "reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org" <reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Ted Ts'o wrote: > > I'll repropose the patchset with __deprecated as you suggested. Thanks! > > And what Dave and I are saying is that we'll either need to do our on > loop to avoid the deprecation warning, or the use of the deprecated > function will probably be used forever... > We certainly hope that nobody will reimplement the same function without the __deprecated warning, especially for order < PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER where there's no looping at a higher level. So perhaps the best alternative is to implement the same _nofail() functions but do a WARN_ON(get_order(size) > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) instead? I think it's really sad that the caller can't know what the upper bounds of its memory requirement are ahead of time or at least be able to implement a memory freeing function when kmalloc() returns NULL. -- 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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