[RFC 3/4] sparc: remove __GFP_NOFAIL reuquirement

[Michal Hocko]

mdesc_kmalloc is currently requiring __GFP_NOFAIL allocation although it
seems that the allocation failure is handled by all callers (via
mdesc_alloc). __GFP_NOFAIL is a strong liability for the memory
allocator and so the users are discouraged to use the flag unless the
allocation failure is really a nogo. Drop the flag here as this doesn't
seem to be the case.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
---
 arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c
index 99632a87e697..6801bd778af2 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ static struct mdesc_handle *mdesc_kmalloc(unsigned int mdesc_size)
 		       sizeof(struct mdesc_hdr) +
 		       mdesc_size);
 
-	base = kmalloc(handle_size + 15, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
+	base = kmalloc(handle_size + 15, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (base) {
 		struct mdesc_handle *hp;
 		unsigned long addr;
-- 
2.1.4

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