On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 11:01:23AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > __GFP_$FOO are usually low level. GFP_$FOO are high level and they > combine several subflags to have a specific meaning. So this would need > to be GFP_NOFAIL. Btw. the same applies to __GFP_NORETRY and > __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL. True. But I think adding GFP_NOFAIL and slowly upping the enforcement that no one is using __GFP_NOFAIL directly will get us a similar effect to my *_nofail proposal. It will require manual or scripted checking instead of relying on the compiler, but it's much better than what we have right now.
