linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Parisc: Check kmalloc return value before use the buffer in ccio-dma.c

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Date:	Thu, 6 May 2010 16:08:54 -0400
From:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
To:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
Cc:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>, wzt.wzt@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org,
	deller@....de, jejb@...isc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Parisc: Check kmalloc return value before use the
	buffer in ccio-dma.c

On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 04:59:48AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 12:03:31AM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> > We can change it to GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOFAIL so it will retry infinitely,
> > or we can panic in the error path with a nice error message so the users
> > knows why his machine isn't going to work.
> 
> If we can't initialise the IOMMU, can we even get a panic message out to
> the user?
> 

Excellent question! I'm not sure. IODC console will still be working up
until it gets bonked, so early_console is probably still functional up
until that point.

--Kyle
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