On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 01:26:06PM -0400, ty...@mit.edu wrote: > > Well. Converting an existing retry-for-ever caller to GFP_NOFAIL is > > good. Adding new retry-for-ever code is not good.
Oh, and BTW --- now that checkpatch.pl now flags an warning whenever GFP_NOFAIL is used, because it is deprecated, patches that convert a loop to use GFP_NOFAIL will get flagged with checkpatch, and this will also incentivize people writing new code and who can't find any other way to deal with an allocation failure to simply open code the loop... - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/