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

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Message-ID: <87wsm7bo1n.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Date:	Tue, 06 May 2008 14:43:48 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
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

KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com> writes:

> 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.

-Andi
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