Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Feb 2006 15:28:02 -0800 (PST) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: Terminate process that fails on a constrained allocation |
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On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > I think it should be put into 2.6.16. Andrew? > > Does every single caller of __alloc_pages(__GFP_FS) correctly handle a NULL > return? I doubt it, in which case this patch will cause oopses and hangs.
If a caller cannot handle NULL then __GFP_NOFAIL has to be set, right?
So we will never get to the piece of code under discussion.
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