Re: [PATCH -tip] mm: introduce __GFP_PANIC modifier

[Christoph Lameter]

On Mon, 4 May 2009, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:

> As I see page allocator already quite modified in -mm tree.
> Christoph will kmalloc with (__GFP_NOFAIL | __GFP_REPEAT)
> inform us on exhausted memory? Or we just stuck with blank
> screen instead (not blank actually but with previous messages)?

If you do not specify __GFP_NOWARN then it should give you messages,

Guess we need to very that it behaves in the right wya.

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