Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: 2010-08-24 13:29:51
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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'.