Commit c8f4a2d0 authored by Yinghai Lu's avatar Yinghai Lu Committed by Linus Torvalds

bootmem: make ___alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic() really nopanic

In reaction to commit 99ab7b19 ("mm: sparse: fix usemap allocation
above node descriptor section") Johannes said:
| while backporting the below patch, I realised that your fix busted
| f5bf18fa again.  The problem was not a panicking version on
| allocation failure but when the usemap size was too large such that
| goal + size > limit triggers the BUG_ON in the bootmem allocator.  So
| we need a version that passes limit ONLY if the usemap is smaller than
| the section.

after checking the code, the name of ___alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic()
does not reflect the fact.

Make bootmem really not panic.

Hope will kill bootmem sooner.
Signed-off-by: default avatarYinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>    [3.3.x, 3.4.x]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 84a1caf1
......@@ -710,6 +710,10 @@ void * __init ___alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic(pg_data_t *pgdat,
if (ptr)
return ptr;
/* do not panic in alloc_bootmem_bdata() */
if (limit && goal + size > limit)
limit = 0;
ptr = alloc_bootmem_bdata(pgdat->bdata, size, align, goal, limit);
if (ptr)
return ptr;
......
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