Re: [patch 2/2] fs: buffer: move allocation failure loop into the allocator

Christoph Lameter
2013-12-13T16:46:17Z

On Fri, 13 Dec 2013, Joonsoo Kim wrote:

> Could you review this patch?
> I think that we should merge it to fix the problem reported by Christian.

I'd be fine with clearing __GFP_NOFAIL but not with using the same flags
as for a higher order alloc. __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOWARN should be left
untouched for the minimal alloc.