On Thu, 20 Dec 2012, Sasha Levin wrote: > So what we really need is to update the documentation of __alloc_bootmem_node, I'll send > a patch that does that instead. > It panics iff slab is not available to allocate from yet, otherwise it's just a wrapper around kmalloc(). This emits a warning to the kernel log, though, so __alloc_bootmem_node() should certainly not be called that late in the boot sequence. Since __alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic() is the way to avoid the panic, I think the change that should be made here so to panic even when the kmalloc() fails in __alloc_bootmem_node(), __alloc_bootmem_node_high(), and __alloc_bootmem_low_node(). -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>