Re: GFS2 and DLM

[Ingo Molnar]

* Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 ...

i dont think this is a huge issue that should block merging.

	Ingo
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