Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755169Ab0HXN3v (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:29:51 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:35897 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755073Ab0HXN3s convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:29:48 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc From: Peter Zijlstra To: David Rientjes Cc: Andrew Morton , Neil Brown , Alasdair G Kergon , Chris Mason , Steven Whitehouse , Jens Axboe , Jan Kara , Frederic Weisbecker , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, cluster-devel@redhat.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:29:18 +0200 Message-ID: <1282656558.2605.2742.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 610 Lines: 15 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-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/