Re: [RFC/PATCH v2] mm: Introduce GFP_PANIC for non-failingallocations

[Pekka Enberg]

On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 17:37 +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> Thanks Pekka! At moment it's usefull for x86 uv_system_init (3 times)
> for early boot code. Plain panic_on_null (suggested by Andrew) could
> be usefull as well but would lead to additional wrapper around kmalloc
> which is already inlined. Which means -- at moment we have those cases
> handled by BUG_ON but having one common option would be better I guess
> (ie have an ability to say page allocator that just do panic on fail).
> 
> Anyway, if there is still objections on such an approach (even having
> gpf bits saved by elegant way Pekka suggested) -- I'm fine with having
> those BUG_ONs instead of short and gracious GFP_PANIC :)

There are such BUG_ONs in SLUB, for example, and probably elsewhere in
early-boot code.

			Pekka

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