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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 12:05:49 -0700
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On Wed, 2017-04-26 at 20:50 +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > Basically most everything that has a gfp_t argument does a
> > dump_stack() on OOM unless __GFP_NOWARN is specified by that gfp_t.
> 
> How do you think about to improve any programming interface documentation
> around such a function property?

Feel free to submit documentation patches.

> Are there any special checks needed for function implementations
> which can pass the flag “__GFP_NOWARN”?

No.