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

[Christoph Lameter]

On Mon, 4 May 2009, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:

> You know I only found a message in case if page is already
> not granted (ie NULL is going to be returned) and right
> before that we print a warning about that (nopage: label).
> Which means - no panic here and with (__GFP_NOFAIL | __GFP_REPEAT)
> just spinning around in attepmt to allocate new memory. And how
> to behave on atomic allocations. Almost give up... :)

Could you check for __GFP_FAIL|__GFP_REPEAT somewheres and panic? Not sure
if __GFP_REPEAT is the right second flag to use.

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