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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/6] md: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:01:09 -0700
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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?