On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, David Rientjes wrote: > Add kmalloc_nofail(), kcalloc_nofail(), and kzalloc_nofail(). These > functions are equivalent to kmalloc(), kcalloc(), and kzalloc(), > respectively, except that they will never return NULL and instead loop > forever trying to allocate memory. > > If the first allocation attempt fails because the page allocator doesn't > implicitly loop, a warning will be emitted, including a call trace. > Subsequent failures will suppress this warning. > > These were added as helper functions for documentation and auditability. > No future callers should be added. >
Are there any objections to merging this series through -mm with the exception of the fifth patch for ntfs? That particular patch needs to have its WARN_ON_ONCE() condition rewritten since it fallbacks to vmalloc for high order allocs. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
