Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc andkzalloc

[David Rientjes]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Peter Zijlstra 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?
> 

I'm trying to remove that bit, and __GFP_REPEAT, to simplify and remove 
several branches from the page allocator.

> 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'.
> 

Great!
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