Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: Introduce GFP_PANIC for early-boot allocations

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat May 09 2009 - 05:34:58 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> it is shorter, tidier, more maintainable, more reviewable to write:
>
> ptr = kmalloc(GFP_BOOT, size);
>
> than to write:
>
> ptr = kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL, size);
> BUG_ON(!ptr);

[ Oh, and everyone saw the kernel bug i hid, and did notice it in
the first variant sooner than in the second, right? :) ]

Ingo
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