From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memblock: Fix big size with find_region()
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 15:47:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CACFC9D.3010803@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101006154503.db30e742.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On 10/06/2010 03:45 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> whomeidunno. The question is "is this something we want to know
> about". If it's a BIOS/acpi/whatever error then I'd think "yes",
> because that would then lead to useful kernel workarounds or BIOS
> updates?
I don't think it's inherently that... it could be in some cases, but not
in others. In either case, an allocation failure should be handled in
the calling layer... or we have a much more serious problem.
However, I suspect the most common case where we'll hit this is when
something wants to fit inside a chunk where it simply doesn't fit ...
and it'll either move on to the next plausible chunk or fail at that point.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-06 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-28 8:47 [PATCH] memblock: Fix big size with find_region() Yinghai Lu
2010-10-06 21:06 ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-06 21:55 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-10-06 22:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-06 22:45 ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-06 22:47 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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