Re: [PATCH 40/45] powerpc, irq: Use GFP_ATOMIC allocations in atomic context

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On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 12:58 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 12:13:04PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 12:08 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > > We're not checking for allocation failure, which we should be.
> > > 
> > > But this code is only used on powermac and 85xx, so it should probably
> > > just be a TODO to fix this up to handle the failure.
> > 
> > And what can we do if they fail ?
> 
> Fail up the chain and not unplug the CPU presumably.

BTW. Isn't Srivatsa series removing the need to stop_machine() for
unplug ? That should mean we should be able to use GFP_KERNEL no ?

Cheers,
Ben.


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