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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1008241309170.21242@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:11:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>
cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	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 Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Jens Axboe wrote:

> Should be possible to warn at build time for anyone using __GFP_NOFAIL
> without wrapping it in a function.
> 

We could make this __deprecated functions as Peter suggested if you think 
build time warnings for existing users would be helpful.
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