Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Mar 07 2002 - 08:49:23 EST

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> caller. This is actually wrong because in this failure case, it effectively
> changes the semantics of GFP_USER, GFP_KERNEL, and the other blocking GFP_*
> allocations to GFP_ATOMIC. And that's what forced UML to segfault the
> compilations.

GFP_KERNEL will sometimes return NULL.

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