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

Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-24T13:29:18Z

On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 03:50 -0700, David Rientjes 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?

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'.