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

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1403251806321.21733@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:07:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, tytso@....edu,
	Fabian Frederick <fabf@...net.be>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/1] fs/reiserfs/journal.c: Remove obsolete  __GFP_NOFAIL

On Sat, 22 Mar 2014, Joe Perches wrote:

> How about just changing this message to something like:
> 
> 			WARN("__GFP_NOFAIL",
> 			     "Use of __GFP_NOFAIL may cause the OOM handler to kill a random process\n" . $herecurr);

Because it doesn't, the GFP_NOFS allocation in question already cannot 
invoke the oom killer.
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