From 74768ed833344bb0f82b97cee46320a3d7f09ecd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:08:39 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] 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>
---
include/linux/bootmem.h | 4 ++++
mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/bootmem.h b/include/linux/bootmem.h
index 652470b687c95..95837bfb52561 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 401d104d2bb6e..af982f7cdb2a8 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 {
--
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