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Use kmem_cache_alloc() directly. All kmem_zone_alloc() users pass 0 as flags, which are translated into: GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN, and kmem_zone_alloc() loops forever until the allocation succeeds. We can use __GFP_NOFAIL to tell the allocator to loop forever rather than doing it ourself, and because the allocation will never fail, we do not need to use __GFP_NOWARN anymore. Hence, all callers can be converted to use GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> [darrick: add a comment back in about nofail] Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.