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From: Pekka Enberg

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

Date: Monday, August 23, 2010 - 1:09 pm

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
quoted text> 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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[patch 0/6] remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Mon Aug 16, 7:57 pm)

[patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Mon Aug 16, 7:57 pm)

[patch 2/6] btrfs: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Mon Aug 16, 7:57 pm)

[patch 3/6] gfs2: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Mon Aug 16, 7:57 pm)

[patch 4/6] jbd: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Mon Aug 16, 7:58 pm)

[patch 5/6] ntfs: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Mon Aug 16, 7:58 pm)

[patch 6/6] reiserfs: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Mon Aug 16, 7:58 pm)

Re: [patch 4/6] jbd: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, Jan Kara, (Tue Aug 17, 2:51 am)

Re: [patch 4/6] jbd: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Tue Aug 17, 10:48 am)

Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, Andrew Morton, (Mon Aug 23, 12:26 pm)

Re: [patch 4/6] jbd: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, Andrew Morton, (Mon Aug 23, 12:28 pm)

Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Mon Aug 23, 12:35 pm)

Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, Andrew Morton, (Mon Aug 23, 12:51 pm)

Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, Andrew Morton, (Mon Aug 23, 1:01 pm)

Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Mon Aug 23, 1:03 pm)

Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Mon Aug 23, 1:08 pm)

Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, Pekka Enberg, (Mon Aug 23, 1:09 pm)

Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Mon Aug 23, 1:13 pm)

Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, Andrew Morton, (Mon Aug 23, 1:23 pm)

Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, Pekka Enberg, (Mon Aug 23, 1:29 pm)

Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Mon Aug 23, 1:37 pm)

Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Mon Aug 23, 1:40 pm)

Re: [patch 4/6] jbd: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, Jan Kara, (Mon Aug 23, 3:03 pm)

Re: [patch 4/6] jbd: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, Andrew Morton, (Mon Aug 23, 3:11 pm)

Re: [patch 4/6] jbd: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, Jan Kara, (Mon Aug 23, 3:21 pm)

Re: [patch 4/6] jbd: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL, David Rientjes, (Mon Aug 23, 3:22 pm)

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