Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client fixes for 4.12

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu May 11 2017 - 09:27:23 EST


On Thu 11-05-17 13:10:03, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-05-11 at 14:56 +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> > I do not see any explicit documentation which would encourage users
> > to not check for the allocation failure. Only __GFP_NOFAIL is
> > documented it _must_ retry for ever. Of course I am open for any
> > documentation improvements.
>
> As I said, the problem has been the discussion, and how it focusses on
> "must not fail".

I would strongly suggest cc linux-mm ML when doing this kind of changes.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs