Re: the new VM

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 09:23:11 EST


On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 04:04:14PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> exactly, and this is why if a higher level lets through a GFP_KERNEL, then
> it *must* succeed. Otherwise either the higher level code is buggy, or the
> VM balance is buggy, but we want to have clear signs of it.

I'm not sure if we should restrict the limiting only to the cases that needs
them. For example do_anonymous_page looks a place that could rely on the
GFP retval.

Andrea
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