Re: [PATCH] Parisc: Check kmalloc return value before use thebuffer in ccio-dma.c

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 12:03:31AM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> We can change it to GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOFAIL so it will retry infinitely,
> or we can panic in the error path with a nice error message so the users
> knows why his machine isn't going to work.

If we can't initialise the IOMMU, can we even get a panic message out to
the user?

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