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 16:03:31 +0200
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On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 23:55 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> no one has noticed
> that XFS has been doing these "allocations can't fail" loop in
> kmem_alloc() and kmem_zone_alloc(), well, forever 

I occasionally check if its still there and cry a little ;-)