[PATCH Latency Tracer] don't panic on failed bootmem alloc

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Dec 05 2007 - 23:42:04 EST


Ingo,

This patch prevents a panic on a failed bootmem alloc in the
initialization of the tracer buffers.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>

Index: linux-2.6-latency/kernel/latency_trace.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-latency.orig/kernel/latency_trace.c
+++ linux-2.6-latency/kernel/latency_trace.c
@@ -2720,10 +2720,11 @@ void * __init tracer_alloc_bootmem(unsig
{
void * ret;

- ret =__alloc_bootmem(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT);
+ ret =__alloc_bootmem_nopanic(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES,
+ ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT);
if (ret != NULL && ((unsigned long)ret) < ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT) {
free_bootmem(__pa(ret), size);
- ret = __alloc_bootmem(size,
+ ret = __alloc_bootmem_nopanic(size,
SMP_CACHE_BYTES,
__pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS));
}


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