* _might_ fail. This depends upon the particular VM implementation.
*
* __GFP_NOFAIL: The VM implementation _must_ retry infinitely: the caller
- * cannot handle allocation failures. This modifier is deprecated and no new
- * users should be added.
+ * cannot handle allocation failures. New users should be evaluated carefully
+ * (and the flag should be used only when there is no reasonable failure policy)
+ * but it is definitely preferable to use the flag rather than opencode endless
+ * loop around allocator.
*
* __GFP_NORETRY: The VM implementation must not retry indefinitely.
*
__GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN | \
__GFP_NO_KSWAPD)
-/*
- * GFP_THISNODE does not perform any reclaim, you most likely want to
- * use __GFP_THISNODE to allocate from a given node without fallback!
- */
-#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
-#define GFP_THISNODE (__GFP_THISNODE | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY)
-#else
-#define GFP_THISNODE ((__force gfp_t)0)
-#endif
-
/* This mask makes up all the page movable related flags */
#define GFP_MOVABLE_MASK (__GFP_RECLAIMABLE|__GFP_MOVABLE)