Re: [PATCH 40/45] powerpc, irq: Use GFP_ATOMIC allocations in atomic context

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 12:13:04PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 12:08 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:

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We're not checking for allocation failure, which we should be.

But this code is only used on powermac and 85xx, so it should probably
just be a TODO to fix this up to handle the failure.

And what can we do if they fail ?

Fail up the chain and not unplug the CPU presumably.

cheers