Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL

[Pekka Enberg]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hows about you add a helper function
>
>        void *[kmalloc|alloc_page]_retrying_forever_because_i_suck(lots of args)
>
> then convert the callsites to use that, then nuke __GFP_NOFAIL?

I'd prefer killing off __GFP_NOFAIL properly :-)
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