Re: [PATCH] jbd: JBD replace jbd_kmalloc with kmalloc

[Christoph Lameter]

On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Mingming Cao wrote:

> Index: linux-2.6.23-rc9/fs/jbd/transaction.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.23-rc9.orig/fs/jbd/transaction.c	2007-10-05 12:08:08.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.23-rc9/fs/jbd/transaction.c	2007-10-05 12:08:29.000000000 -0700
> @@ -96,8 +96,8 @@ static int start_this_handle(journal_t *
>  
>  alloc_transaction:
>  	if (!journal->j_running_transaction) {
> -		new_transaction = jbd_kmalloc(sizeof(*new_transaction),
> -						GFP_NOFS);
> +		new_transaction = kmalloc(sizeof(*new_transaction),
> +						GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL);


Why was a __GFP_NOFAIL added here? I do not see a use of jbd_rep_kmalloc?

> -#define jbd_kmalloc(size, flags) \
> -	__jbd_kmalloc(__FUNCTION__, (size), (flags), journal_oom_retry)

journal_oom_retry is no longer used?
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