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Subject: Re: GFS2 and DLM
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On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 22:03 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > The code uses GFP_NOFAIL for slab allocator calls.  It's been pointed 
> > out here numerous times that this can't work.  Andrew, what about 
> > adding a check to slab.c to bail out if someone passes it?
> 
> reiserfs, jbd and NTFS are all using GFP_NOFAIL ...
> 

they use it for slab or for get_free_pages() ?