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

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

[Christoph Lameter - Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:13:34AM -0400]
| 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.
|

thanks Christoph, I need to read a modified version (which
is in -mm tree now). Maybe we could find a way indeed :)

	-- Cyrill
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