linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/cgroup.c add error check

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Date:	Tue, 6 May 2008 22:02:38 +0900
From:	"KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	"Andi Kleen" <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"Paul Menage" <menage@...gle.com>, "Li Zefan" <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/cgroup.c add error check

>  > on heavy workload, call_usermodehelper() may failure
>  > because it use kzmalloc(GFP_ATOMIC).
>
>  Better just fix it to not use GFP_ATOMIC in the first place.

Ah, makes sense.
I'll try toi create that patch.

but if GFP_KERNEL is used, We still need error check, IMHO.
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