Re: [PATCH] mm: add a nopanic option for low bootmem

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

On Tuesday 25 April 2006 16:08, Jon Mason wrote:
> 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.


I will merge it together with the Calgary code then.
-Andi