From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and
 kzalloc
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:29:18 +0200
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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'.