Re: Terminate process that fails on a constrained allocation

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Unfortunately Andrew's point with the GFP_NOFS still applies :/
> But I would consider any caller of this not handling NULL be broken.
> Andrew do you have any stronger evidence it's a real problem?

I would think that a caller will have to set __GFP_NOFAIL if a NULL is 
unacceptable.
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