linux-kernel - Re: introducing __GFP

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Date:	Mon, 04 May 2009 13:33:08 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Cc:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: introducing __GFP_PANIC

On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 14:11 +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> I believe this version should be correct (still RFC).
> __GFP_NOWARN has printk limit so instead of making
> additional checks (while combining those prink in
> original code) just adding panic with order and flags
> should be cleaner (as it done at moment :)

Looks good to me!

Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>

I suspect the patch needs some additional work for -mm due to Mel
Gorman's page allocator cleanup and optimization patches.

			Pekka

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