linux-kernel - [patch 07/10] mm: nobootmem: panic on node-specific allocation failure

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Date:	Mon,  7 May 2012 13:37:49 +0200
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Gavin Shan <shangw@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch 07/10] mm: nobootmem: panic on node-specific allocation failure

__alloc_bootmem_node and __alloc_bootmem_low_node documentation claims
the functions panic on allocation failure.  Do it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
---
 mm/nobootmem.c |   20 ++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/nobootmem.c b/mm/nobootmem.c
index e53bb8a..b078ff8 100644
--- a/mm/nobootmem.c
+++ b/mm/nobootmem.c
@@ -306,11 +306,17 @@ again:
 
 	ptr = __alloc_memory_core_early(MAX_NUMNODES, size, align,
 					goal, -1ULL);
-	if (!ptr && goal) {
+	if (ptr)
+		return ptr;
+
+	if (goal) {
 		goal = 0;
 		goto again;
 	}
-	return ptr;
+
+	printk(KERN_ALERT "bootmem alloc of %lu bytes failed!\n", size);
+	panic("Out of memory");
+	return NULL;
 }
 
 void * __init __alloc_bootmem_node_high(pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long size,
@@ -408,6 +414,12 @@ void * __init __alloc_bootmem_low_node(pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long size,
 	if (ptr)
 		return ptr;
 
-	return  __alloc_memory_core_early(MAX_NUMNODES, size, align,
-				goal, ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT);
+	ptr = __alloc_memory_core_early(MAX_NUMNODES, size, align,
+					goal, ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT);
+	if (ptr)
+		return ptr;
+
+	printk(KERN_ALERT "bootmem alloc of %lu bytes failed!\n", size);
+	panic("Out of memory");
+	return NULL;
 }
-- 
1.7.10

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