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.
Calgary and swiotlb can use it to gracefully handle out of memory when
they allocate their aperture (swiotlb) or translation tables (Calgary)
on initialization. Either can fall back to no-iommu if initialization
fails so there's really no need to panic.
Jon, you should probably resubmit this with your swiotlb patches
making use of it.
Cheers,
Muli
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Muli Ben-Yehuda
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