mm: introduce non panic alloc_bootmem

Straight forward variant of the existing __alloc_bootmem_node, only subsequent patch when allocating giant hugepages at boot -- don't want to panic if we can't allocate as many as the user asked for. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
git-mirror · Jul 24, 2008 · b54bbf7 · b54bbf7
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diff --git a/include/linux/bootmem.h b/include/linux/bootmem.h
@@ -89,6 +89,10 @@ extern void *__alloc_bootmem_node(pg_data_t *pgdat,
 				  unsigned long size,
 				  unsigned long align,
 				  unsigned long goal);
+extern void *__alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic(pg_data_t *pgdat,
+				  unsigned long size,
+				  unsigned long align,
+				  unsigned long goal);
 extern unsigned long init_bootmem_node(pg_data_t *pgdat,
 				       unsigned long freepfn,
 				       unsigned long startpfn,

diff --git a/mm/bootmem.c b/mm/bootmem.c
@@ -578,6 +578,18 @@ void * __init alloc_bootmem_section(unsigned long size,
 }
 #endif
 
+void * __init __alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic(pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long size,
+				   unsigned long align, unsigned long goal)
+{
+	void *ptr;
+
+	ptr = alloc_bootmem_core(pgdat->bdata, size, align, goal, 0);
+	if (ptr)
+		return ptr;
+
+	return __alloc_bootmem_nopanic(size, align, goal);
+}
+
 #ifndef ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT
 #define ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT	0xffffffffUL
 #endif