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

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

[Cyrill Gorcunov - Mon, May 04, 2009 at 06:29:03PM +0400]
| [Christoph Lameter - Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:13:34AM -0400]
| | On Mon, 4 May 2009, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
| | 
| | > As I see page allocator already quite modified in -mm tree.
| | > Christoph will kmalloc with (__GFP_NOFAIL | __GFP_REPEAT)
| | > inform us on exhausted memory? Or we just stuck with blank
| | > screen instead (not blank actually but with previous messages)?
| | 
| | If you do not specify __GFP_NOWARN then it should give you messages,
| | 
| | Guess we need to very that it behaves in the right wya.
| |
| 
| thanks Christoph, I need to read a modified version (which
| is in -mm tree now). Maybe we could find a way indeed :)
| 
| 	-- Cyrill

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... :)

	-- Cyrill
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