linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 1/1] fs/reiserfs/journal.c: Remove obsolete __GFP

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Date:	Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:27:40 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Fabian Frederick <fabf@...net.be>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/1] fs/reiserfs/journal.c: Remove obsolete  __GFP_NOFAIL

On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 00:21:59 +0100 Fabian Frederick <fabf@...net.be> wrote:

> > What we should do is to fix all these call sites so they can handle
> > memory exhaustion.  That's hard so in the interim they should be using
> > __GFP_NOFAIL.
> > 
> 
> Ok, if even ext4 comments are wrong, things gonna be very difficult :)
> Any sample of a callsite transition done well ?  (git id ?)

grep NOFAIL fs/jbd/*.c
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