From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760975AbYDYIHx (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:07:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752529AbYDYIH1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:07:27 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:57474 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750894AbYDYIHZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:07:25 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:07:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080425.010724.131751603.davem@davemloft.net> To: mingo@elte.hu Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: [git pull] scheduler/misc fixes From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080425080421.GA14939@elte.hu> References: <20080424225530.GA8717@elte.hu> <20080424.204620.88617191.davem@davemloft.net> <20080425080421.GA14939@elte.hu> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Ingo Molnar Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:04:21 +0200 > should we perhaps make alloc_bootmem_low() generate a warning instead of > breaking the bootup? Especially on systems that have no physical RAM > below 4GB at all the whole notion of 'lowmem' is meaningless. It spits out an error to the console.