Re: kernel memory allocation failures

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:00:06AM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> Perhaps we should just explain that it is not the responsibility of the
> caller to check for the result of kmem_alloc() in the KM_WAIT case, and
> centralize the check in kmem_alloc() to make it panic() if it would
> return NULL? Is that better than fixing the 400+ calling sites?

Exactly. It is much better.

Joerg