Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:08:39 -0500 | From | Jon Mason <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: add a nopanic option for low bootmem |
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On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 12:43:38AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Monday 24 April 2006 23:44, Jon Mason wrote: > > This patch adds a no panic option for low bootmem allocs. This will > > allow for a more graceful handling of "out of memory" for those > > callers who wish to handle it. > > What's the user of it? Normally we don't merge such changes without > an user.
Sorry. Per your suggestion in the review of our Calgary IOMMU code, I tried to use the alloc_bootmem_nopanic that you recently added. Unfortunately, it needs low mem for our translation tables, so we needed a new function to do this.
Aside from Calgary, I have updated swiotlb to take advantage of this new function (amongst other clean-ups and refinements). I'll push those swiotlb patches out today.
Thanks, Jon
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