Re: Terminate process that fails on a constrained allocation

[Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>]

On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > I think it should be put into 2.6.16. Andrew?
> 
> Does every single caller of __alloc_pages(__GFP_FS) correctly handle a NULL
> return?  I doubt it, in which case this patch will cause oopses and hangs.

If a caller cannot handle NULL then __GFP_NOFAIL has to be set, right?

So we will never get to the piece of code under discussion.

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