Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 May 2009 20:11:09 +0400 | From | Cyrill Gorcunov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -tip] mm: introduce __GFP_PANIC modifier |
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[Christoph Lameter - Mon, May 04, 2009 at 11:54:53AM -0400] | On Mon, 4 May 2009, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: | | > You know I only found a message in case if page is already | > not granted (ie NULL is going to be returned) and right | > before that we print a warning about that (nopage: label). | > Which means - no panic here and with (__GFP_NOFAIL | __GFP_REPEAT) | > just spinning around in attepmt to allocate new memory. And how | > to behave on atomic allocations. Almost give up... :) | | Could you check for __GFP_FAIL|__GFP_REPEAT somewheres and panic? Not sure | if __GFP_REPEAT is the right second flag to use. |
OK, I thought about various mods combinations too. Will recheck if there a way more precise. Thanks!
-- Cyrill
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