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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: check return value of memblock_alloc_node_nopanic()
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 03:19:35AM -0700, William Kucharski wrote:
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> This seems very reasonable, but if the code is just going to panic if the
> allocation fails, why not call memblock_alloc_node() instead?

I've sent patches [1] that remove panic() from memblock_alloc*() and drop
_nopanic variants. After they will be (hopefully) merged,
memblock_alloc_node() will return NULL on error.

> If there is a reason we'd prefer to call memblock_alloc_node_nopanic(),
> I'd like to see pgdat->nodeid printed in the panic message as well.

Sure.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1547646261-32535-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com/

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Sincerely yours,
Mike.

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