From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:11:26 -0700 (PDT)
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On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Jens Axboe wrote:

> Should be possible to warn at build time for anyone using __GFP_NOFAIL
> without wrapping it in a function.
> 

We could make this __deprecated functions as Peter suggested if you think 
build time warnings for existing users would be helpful.