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    bootmem: make ___alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic() really nopanic · c8f4a2d0
    Yinghai Lu authored
    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>
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