Re: [PATCH 3/3][RFC] x86: x2apic/cluster: Do not handle cpumaskallocation errors

[Suresh Siddha]

On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 12:26 +0200, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
> With this fix allocations of cpumasks are assumed always successfull
> and possible failures result in BUG().

BUG check for memory allocation failures in IPI path is not a good idea.
We will be using IPI's to flush TLB's before we evict the pages for
recovering from low-memory conditions.  We need to provide a clean fall
back path.

So NAK.

thanks,
suresh

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