On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 04:59:48AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 12:03:31AM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote: > > We can change it to GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_NOFAIL so it will retry infinitely, > > or we can panic in the error path with a nice error message so the users > > knows why his machine isn't going to work. > > If we can't initialise the IOMMU, can we even get a panic message out to > the user? > Excellent question! I'm not sure. IODC console will still be working up until it gets bonked, so early_console is probably still functional up until that point. --Kyle -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
