Re: [patch 6/6] jbd2: remove dependency on __GFP_NOFAIL

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On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Ted Ts'o wrote:

> __GFP_NOFAIL is going away, so add our own retry loop.  Also add
> jbd2__journal_start() and jbd2__journal_restart() which take a gfp
> mask, so that file systems can optionally (re)start transaction
> handles using GFP_KERNEL.  If they do this, then they need to be
> prepared to handle receiving an PTR_ERR(-ENOMEM) error, and be ready
> to reflect that error up to userspace.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>

Will you be pushing the equivalent patch for jbd?
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