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Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 13:23:19 +0300 (EEST)
From: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes-kernel@saeurebad.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Catch kmalloc() failure in kmem_cache_init()
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On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> This patch makes kmem_cache_init() trigger a BUG when the calls to
> kmalloc() fail. Altough the kernel would not boot anyway on failure,
> this adds some clarity to the code.

Indeed. This keeps popping up again and again, so

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>