Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Allow internal page allocations to fail

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On Fri, 2017-12-15 at 10:17 +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Internal objects consistent of scratch pages not subject to the
> persistence guarantees of user facing objects. They are used for
> example, in ring buffers where they are only required for temporary
> storage of commands that will be rewritten every time. As they are
> temporary constructs, quietly report -ENOMEM back along the callchain
> rather than subject the system to oomkiller if an allocation fails.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Regards, Joonas
-- 
Joonas Lahtinen
Open Source Technology Center
Intel Corporation
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