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SubjectRe: [PATCH -tip] mm: introduce __GFP_PANIC modifier
[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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