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authorJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>2008-08-12 15:08:39 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-08-12 16:07:27 -0700
commit74768ed833344bb0f82b97cee46320a3d7f09ecd (patch)
treeeee3404d1dd51eb184eab88e12dbc774dc693522
parent866c36637f79506b283a6872a7c313b5ef499985 (diff)
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.h4
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c2
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/bootmem.h b/include/linux/bootmem.h
index 652470b687c..95837bfb525 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 401d104d2bb..af982f7cdb2 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 {