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From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: "akinobu.mita@gmail.com" <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>,
	"linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org"
	<kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 3/14] arch/ia64: Eliminate NULL test and memset after alloc_bootmem
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:00:01 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806241959180.26777@ask.diku.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57C9024A16AD2D4C97DC78E552063EA3062D2476@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Luck, Tony wrote:

> > In addition the current alloc_bootmem() is a macro that uses __alloc_bootmem
> > which most defintely can return NULL.
> 
>         ...
>         panic("Out of memory");
>         return NULL;
> }
> 
> Oops ... that "panic" call before the "return NULL" makes the
> above statement totally wrong.

Thanks.  I was worried there might be somewhere a non-aborting version of 
panic.  But that would be really confusing...

julia


      reply	other threads:[~2008-06-24 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-24  8:22 Julia Lawall
2008-06-24 17:42 ` Luck, Tony
2008-06-24 17:55   ` Julia Lawall
2008-06-24 17:59     ` Luck, Tony
2008-06-24 17:56   ` Luck, Tony
2008-06-24 18:00     ` Julia Lawall [this message]

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