On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 at 17:11, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Let's put whishful thinking aside. Unless somebody manages to go over
> all existing NOFAIL users and fix them then we should better focus on
> providing a reasonable clearly documented and enforced semantic.
I do like changing the naming to make it clear that it's not some kind
of general MM guarantee for any random allocation.
So that's why I liked the NOFAIL_SMALL_ALLOC just to make people who
use it aware that no, they aren't getting a "get out of jail free"
card.
Admittedly that's probably _too_ long a name, but conceptually...
Linus
