Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86-32: Restore irq stacks NUMA-aware allocations

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On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:58:03PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le samedi 30 octobre 2010 à 00:28 +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov a écrit :
> > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 08:32:26PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 06:43 +0000, tip-bot for Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > > > +       irqctx = page_address(alloc_pages_node(cpu_to_node(cpu),
> > > > +                                              THREAD_FLAGS,
> > > > +                                              THREAD_ORDER)); 
> > > 
> > > Shouldn't we be checking for a NULL return from alloc_pages_node()
> > > before calling page_address() on it?
> > > --
> > 
> >  Something like below I guess, but probably we could try to allocate
> > on appropriate NUMA node first and if it fails -- via old alloc_pages
> > and if it fail in turn -- then we panic.
> 
> Maybe my commit message was not clear : 
> 
> There is no need to test return from alloc_pages_node() and do the
> fallback. It already done properly.
>

Yes Eric, somehow managed to miss that, my bad.
 
  Cyrill
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