page allocator: use no-panic variant of alloc_bootmem() in alloc_larg…

…e_system_hash() .. since a failed allocation is being (initially) handled gracefully, and panic()-ed upon failure explicitly in the function if retries with smaller sizes failed. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
chewitt · Aug 12, 2008 · 74768ed · 74768ed
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diff --git a/include/linux/bootmem.h b/include/linux/bootmem.h
@@ -97,10 +97,14 @@ extern void *__alloc_bootmem_low_node(pg_data_t *pgdat,
 #ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM_NODE
 #define alloc_bootmem(x) \
 	__alloc_bootmem(x, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS))
+#define alloc_bootmem_nopanic(x) \
+	__alloc_bootmem_nopanic(x, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS))
 #define alloc_bootmem_low(x) \
 	__alloc_bootmem_low(x, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, 0)
 #define alloc_bootmem_pages(x) \
 	__alloc_bootmem(x, PAGE_SIZE, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS))
+#define alloc_bootmem_pages_nopanic(x) \
+	__alloc_bootmem_nopanic(x, PAGE_SIZE, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS))
 #define alloc_bootmem_low_pages(x) \
 	__alloc_bootmem_low(x, PAGE_SIZE, 0)
 #define alloc_bootmem_node(pgdat, x) \

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -4437,7 +4437,7 @@ void *__init alloc_large_system_hash(const char *tablename,
 	do {
 		size = bucketsize << log2qty;
 		if (flags & HASH_EARLY)
-			table = alloc_bootmem(size);
+			table = alloc_bootmem_nopanic(size);
 		else if (hashdist)
 			table = __vmalloc(size, GFP_ATOMIC, PAGE_KERNEL);
 		else {