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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] mm, bootmem: panic in bootmem alloc functions even if slab is available
On Sun, 23 Dec 2012, Sasha Levin wrote:

> diff --git a/mm/bootmem.c b/mm/bootmem.c
> index 1324cd7..198a92f 100644
> --- a/mm/bootmem.c
> +++ b/mm/bootmem.c
> @@ -763,9 +763,6 @@ void * __init ___alloc_bootmem_node(pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long size,
> void * __init __alloc_bootmem_node(pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long size,
> unsigned long align, unsigned long goal)
> {
> - if (WARN_ON_ONCE(slab_is_available()))
> - return kzalloc_node(size, GFP_NOWAIT, pgdat->node_id);
> -
> return ___alloc_bootmem_node(pgdat, size, align, goal, 0);
> }
>

All you're doing is removing the fallback if this happens to be called
with slab_is_available(). It's still possible that the slab allocator can
successfully allocate the memory, though. So it would be rather
unfortunate to start panicking in a situation that used to only emit a
warning.

Why can't you panic only kzalloc_node() returns NULL and otherwise just
return the allocated memory?


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