Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages

Alan Cox
2002-03-07T13:36:06Z

> caller. This is actually wrong because in this failure case, it effectively
> changes the semantics of GFP_USER, GFP_KERNEL, and the other blocking GFP_*
> allocations to GFP_ATOMIC. And that's what forced UML to segfault the
> compilations.

GFP_KERNEL will sometimes return NULL.