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Subject: Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages
To: jdike@karaya.com (Jeff Dike)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 13:49:23 +0000 (GMT)
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> caller.  This is actually wrong because in this failure case, it effectively
> changes the semantics of GFP_USER, GFP_KERNEL, and the other blocking GFP_* 
> allocations to GFP_ATOMIC.  And that's what forced UML to segfault the 
> compilations.

GFP_KERNEL will sometimes return NULL.

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