Re: [patch 1/5] mm: add nofail variants of kmalloc kcalloc and kzalloc
From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Date: 2010-08-25 23:06:02
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On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Christoph Lameter wrote:
If the higher order fails in slub then an order 0 alloc is attempted without __GFP_NORETRY. In both cases the nofail behavior of the page allocator determines the outcode.
Right, I thought you said the slab layer passes __GFP_NOFAIL when there's no objects available.