Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc andkzalloc

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Aug 25 2010 - 16:55:52 EST


On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 13:43 -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> The cpusets case is actually the easiest to fix: use GFP_ATOMIC.

I don't think that's a valid usage of GFP_ATOMIC, I think we should
fallback to outside the cpuset for kernel allocations by default.
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