On Tuesday 25 April 2006 16:08, Jon Mason wrote:
> 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.
>
> Sorry. Per your suggestion in the review of our Calgary IOMMU code, I
> tried to use the alloc_bootmem_nopanic that you recently added.
> Unfortunately, it needs low mem for our translation tables, so we needed
> a new function to do this.
>
> Aside from Calgary, I have updated swiotlb to take advantage of this new
> function (amongst other clean-ups and refinements). I'll push those
> swiotlb patches out today.
I will merge it together with the Calgary code then.
-Andi
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