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Subject: Re: [PATCH] sparc: replace __GFP_NOFAIL with GFP_ATOMIC in
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From: Ethan Zhao <ethan.kernel@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 22:54:21 +0800

> Has kmalloc() failure checking there, so it is unnecessary to allocate with
> __GFP_NOFAIL flag that might block forever.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ethan Zhao <ethan.kernel@gmail.com>

Please submit sparc patches with sparclinux@vger.kernel.org at least
CC:'d.