Ingo,

This patch prevents a panic on a failed bootmem alloc in the
initialization of the tracer buffers.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Index: linux-2.6-latency/kernel/latency_trace.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-latency.orig/kernel/latency_trace.c
+++ linux-2.6-latency/kernel/latency_trace.c
@@ -2720,10 +2720,11 @@ void * __init tracer_alloc_bootmem(unsig
 {
        void * ret;
 
-       ret =__alloc_bootmem(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT);
+       ret =__alloc_bootmem_nopanic(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES,
+                                    ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT);
        if (ret != NULL && ((unsigned long)ret) < ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT) {
                free_bootmem(__pa(ret), size);
-               ret = __alloc_bootmem(size,
+               ret = __alloc_bootmem_nopanic(size,
                                SMP_CACHE_BYTES,
                                __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS));
        }


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