Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Sep 2010 02:05:27 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [patch v2 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc |
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On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, David Rientjes wrote:
> Add kmalloc_nofail(), kcalloc_nofail(), and kzalloc_nofail(). These > functions are equivalent to kmalloc(), kcalloc(), and kzalloc(), > respectively, except that they will never return NULL and instead loop > forever trying to allocate memory. > > If the first allocation attempt fails because the page allocator doesn't > implicitly loop, a warning will be emitted, including a call trace. > Subsequent failures will suppress this warning. > > These were added as helper functions for documentation and auditability. > No future callers should be added. >
Are there any objections to merging this series through -mm with the exception of the fifth patch for ntfs? That particular patch needs to have its WARN_ON_ONCE() condition rewritten since it fallbacks to vmalloc for high order allocs.
Thanks.
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