Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
> > Fix memory leak in mm/slab.c::alloc_kmemlist().
> > If one allocation fails we have to roll-back all allocations made up to the
> > point of failure.
>
> Sorry but you cannot roll back. alloc_kmemlist() could have been used for
> tuning the cpucache while accesses to the slab continue. "Rolling back"
> would partially destroy the slab for some nodes and likely cause the
> system to crash. We can only roll back if this is actually an initial
> allocation and we are assured that the whole thing is not yet in use.
Well that's a big pickle. How about allocating everything first, saving it
locally then, if that all worked out, install it?
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