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From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [patch 6/6] jbd2: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL
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On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:09:53AM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> 
> I'll change this to
> 
> 	do {
> 		new_transaction = kzalloc(sizeof(*new_transaction),
> 							GFP_NOFS);
> 	} while (!new_transaction);
> 
> in the next phase when I introduce __GFP_KILLABLE (that jbd and jbd2 can't 
> use because they are GFP_NOFS).

OK, I can carry a patch which does this in the ext4 tree to push to
linus when the merge window opens shortly, since the goal is you want
to get rid of __GFP_NOFAIL altogether, right?

      	       	     	    	  	    	   - Ted

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