Re: the new VMt

On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 07:18:29PM +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote:

yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:

quoted

   walk = out;
        while(nfds > 0) {
                poll_table *tmp = (poll_table *) __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
                if (!tmp) {

Shouldn't this be GFP_USER?  (Which would also conveniently fix the
problem Victor's pointing out...)

It should probably be GFP_ATOMIC, if I understand the mm right. 

The algorithm for requesting a collection of reources and freeing all of them
 on failure is simple, fast, and robust. 


              

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