linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 3/14] arch/ia64: Eliminate NULL test and memset after alloc

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806241959180.26777@ask.diku.dk>
Date:	Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:00:01 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
To:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc:	"akinobu.mita@...il.com" <akinobu.mita@...il.com>,
	"linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org" <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 3/14] arch/ia64: Eliminate NULL test and memset after
 alloc_bootmem

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Luck, Tony wrote:

> > In addition the current alloc_bootmem() is a macro that uses __alloc_bootmem
> > which most defintely can return NULL.
> 
>         ...
>         panic("Out of memory");
>         return NULL;
> }
> 
> Oops ... that "panic" call before the "return NULL" makes the
> above statement totally wrong.

Thanks.  I was worried there might be somewhere a non-aborting version of 
panic.  But that would be really confusing...

julia

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