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. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
