Michal Hocko 647757197c mm: clarify __GFP_NOFAIL deprecation status ... __GFP_NOFAIL is documented as a deprecated flag since commit 478352e789 ("mm: add comment about deprecation of __GFP_NOFAIL"). This has discouraged people from using it but in some cases an opencoded endless loop around allocator has been used instead. So the allocator is not aware of the de facto __GFP_NOFAIL allocation because this information was not communicated properly. Let's make clear that if the allocation context really cannot afford failure because there is no good failure policy then using __GFP_NOFAIL is preferable to opencoding the loop outside of the allocator. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Vipul Pandya <vipul@chelsio.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>		2015-04-14 16:49:04 -07:00
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acpi	Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux	2015-02-19 11:28:36 -08:00
asm-generic	mm: define default PGTABLE_LEVELS to two	2015-04-14 16:49:02 -07:00
clocksource
crypto
drm	drm/ttm: device address space != CPU address space	2015-03-05 09:04:39 +10:00
dt-bindings	USB patches for 4.1-rc1	2015-04-13 17:07:21 -07:00
keys
kvm	KVM/ARM changes for v4.1:	2015-04-07 18:09:20 +02:00
linux	mm: clarify __GFP_NOFAIL deprecation status	2015-04-14 16:49:04 -07:00
math-emu
media	[media] media: atmel-isi: increase the burst length to improve the performance	2015-03-02 13:27:11 -03:00
memory
misc
net	ipv6: protect skb->sk accesses from recursive dereference inside the stack	2015-04-06 16:12:49 -04:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma
rxrpc
scsi	libata-eh: Set 'information' field for autosense	2015-03-27 11:59:22 -04:00
soc	pm: at91: Workaround DDRSDRC self-refresh bug with LPDDR1 memories.	2015-03-03 19:43:59 +01:00
sound
target	target: do not reject FUA CDBs when write cache is enabled but emulate_write_cache is 0	2015-03-19 23:26:46 -07:00
trace	x86: expose number of page table levels on Kconfig level	2015-04-14 16:49:02 -07:00
uapi	Staging driver patches for 4.1-rc1	2015-04-13 17:37:33 -07:00
video	OMAPDSS: fix regression with display sysfs files	2015-02-26 10:23:15 +02:00
xen	xen: Remove trailing semicolon from xenbus_register_frontend() definition	2015-03-02 10:38:59 +00:00
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