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Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 10:31:13 -0700 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>, linux-kernel-list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALPHA: MARVEL - check for allocated memory On Thu, 17 May 2007 18:37:12 +0400 Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com> wrote: > [Andrew Morton - Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:44:55AM -0700] > | On Wed, 16 May 2007 22:12:14 +0400 > | Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com> wrote: > | > | > This patch adds checking for allocated memory > | > which is used to hold AGP info. Also some whitespace > | > cleanup. > | > | The inclusion of all the whitespace fixies makes it rather hard to > | see what the patch actually does. > | > | I'm not sure that I can be bothered with this, really. afaict the > | checks you're adding are for boot-time allocations which we tend > | to assume won't fail, and they're kmalloc(small-amount, GFP_KERNEL) > | which is basically infallible, and it only affects, err, alpha. > | > > So you think we could leave all as is? I mean sould I just drop the patch? mutter. I spose we should fix those sites which can be called at times other than system boot. Often one can use the lack of __init annotation to work out if a site is being called after boot. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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