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Subject: Re: [ANOMALIES]: 2.4.2 - __alloc_pages: failed - Causes more then
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On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Shawn Starr wrote:

> When added with BUG(); it will hang /dev/dsp.

If the device is opened and we oops before closing it, subsequent
open attempts will fail (busy).  If it hangs after a failed high
order allocation attempt without the BUG() insertion, that could
be called a driver bug.

	-Mike