Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: Introduce GFP_PANIC for early-boot allocations

[Ingo Molnar]

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>  it is shorter, tidier, more maintainable, more reviewable to write:
> 
> 	ptr = kmalloc(GFP_BOOT, size);
> 
>  than to write:
> 
> 	ptr = kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL, size);
> 	BUG_ON(!ptr);

[ Oh, and everyone saw the kernel bug i hid, and did notice it in 
  the first variant sooner than in the second, right? :) ]

	Ingo
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