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Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client fixes for 4.12

From Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client fixes for 4.12
Date 2017-05-11 15:30 +0200
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On Thu 11-05-17 13:10:03, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-05-11 at 14:56 +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> > I do not see any explicit documentation which would encourage users
> > to not check for the allocation failure. Only __GFP_NOFAIL is
> > documented it _must_ retry for ever. Of course I am open for any
> > documentation improvements.
> 
> As I said, the problem has been the discussion, and how it focusses on
> "must not fail".

I would strongly suggest cc linux-mm ML when doing this kind of changes.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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[GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client fixes for 4.12 Trond Myklebust <trondmy@primarydata.com> - 2017-05-10 18:50 +0200
  Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client fixes for 4.12 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-05-10 22:10 +0200
  Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client fixes for 4.12 Nikolay Borisov <n.borisov.lkml@gmail.com> - 2017-05-11 10:00 +0200
    Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client fixes for 4.12 Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-05-11 10:00 +0200
      Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client fixes for 4.12 Trond Myklebust <trondmy@primarydata.com> - 2017-05-11 14:20 +0200
        Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client fixes for 4.12 Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-05-11 14:30 +0200
          Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client fixes for 4.12 Trond Myklebust <trondmy@primarydata.com> - 2017-05-11 14:50 +0200
            Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client fixes for 4.12 Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-05-11 15:00 +0200
              Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client fixes for 4.12 Trond Myklebust <trondmy@primarydata.com> - 2017-05-11 15:20 +0200
                Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client fixes for 4.12 Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-05-11 15:30 +0200
    Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client fixes for 4.12 Trond Myklebust <trondmy@primarydata.com> - 2017-05-11 15:50 +0200
      Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull NFS client fixes for 4.12 Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-05-11 16:00 +0200

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