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| author | Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> | 2008-08-12 15:08:39 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-08-12 16:07:27 -0700 |
| commit | 74768ed833344bb0f82b97cee46320a3d7f09ecd (patch) | |
| tree | eee3404d1dd51eb184eab88e12dbc774dc693522 | |
| parent | 866c36637f79506b283a6872a7c313b5ef499985 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-74768ed833344bb0f82b97cee46320a3d7f09ecd.tar.gz lwn-74768ed833344bb0f82b97cee46320a3d7f09ecd.zip | |
page allocator: use no-panic variant of alloc_bootmem() in alloc_large_system_hash()
.. since a failed allocation is being (initially) handled gracefully, and
panic()-ed upon failure explicitly in the function if retries with smaller
sizes failed.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/bootmem.h | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page_alloc.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/bootmem.h b/include/linux/bootmem.h index 652470b687c9..95837bfb5256 100644 --- a/include/linux/bootmem.h +++ b/include/linux/bootmem.h @@ -97,10 +97,14 @@ extern void *__alloc_bootmem_low_node(pg_data_t *pgdat, #ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM_NODE #define alloc_bootmem(x) \ __alloc_bootmem(x, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS)) +#define alloc_bootmem_nopanic(x) \ + __alloc_bootmem_nopanic(x, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS)) #define alloc_bootmem_low(x) \ __alloc_bootmem_low(x, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, 0) #define alloc_bootmem_pages(x) \ __alloc_bootmem(x, PAGE_SIZE, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS)) +#define alloc_bootmem_pages_nopanic(x) \ + __alloc_bootmem_nopanic(x, PAGE_SIZE, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS)) #define alloc_bootmem_low_pages(x) \ __alloc_bootmem_low(x, PAGE_SIZE, 0) #define alloc_bootmem_node(pgdat, x) \ diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 401d104d2bb6..af982f7cdb2a 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -4437,7 +4437,7 @@ void *__init alloc_large_system_hash(const char *tablename, do { size = bucketsize << log2qty; if (flags & HASH_EARLY) - table = alloc_bootmem(size); + table = alloc_bootmem_nopanic(size); else if (hashdist) table = __vmalloc(size, GFP_ATOMIC, PAGE_KERNEL); else { |