Re: [patch 4/6] jbd: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL

[David Rientjes]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Jan Kara wrote:

> > Removes the dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL by looping indefinitely in the
> > caller.
> > 
> > The error handling when kzalloc() returns NULL in start_this_handle()
> > was removed since it was unreachable.
>   Thanks! I've added the patch to my tree. Since rc1 is over, I think this
> is a material for the next merge window, right?

Yes, we still need to switch over GFP_KERNEL callers and remove the flag 
completely, so there's no hurry for this to go into 2.6.36.
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