From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch] checkpatch: add warning of future __GFP_NOFAIL use
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 17:35:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1386725708.8168.25.camel@joe-AO722> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1312101624330.22701@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 16:26 -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> gfp.h and page_alloc.c already specify that __GFP_NOFAIL is deprecated and
> no new users should be added.
>
> Add a warning to checkpatch to catch this.
Fine by me.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-11 1:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-09 21:56 [patch] mm, page_alloc: make __GFP_NOFAIL really not fail David Rientjes
2013-12-09 23:22 ` Andrew Morton
2013-12-10 23:20 ` David Rientjes
2013-12-10 23:39 ` Andrew Morton
2013-12-11 0:11 ` David Rientjes
2013-12-12 1:07 ` Dave Chinner
2013-12-11 0:19 ` [patch alternative] mm, page_alloc: warn for non-blockable __GFP_NOFAIL allocation failure David Rientjes
2013-12-11 0:26 ` [patch] checkpatch: add warning of future __GFP_NOFAIL use David Rientjes
2013-12-11 1:35 ` Joe Perches [this message]
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