Messages in this thread | | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages | Date | Thu, 07 Mar 2002 22:43:09 +0000 |
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alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk said: > Not having a fallback is unacceptable. Thats the real problem. You > can't go around pandering to sloppy coders who can't work a memory > allocator
OTOH there is perhaps some justification for distinguishing between 'If you fail this I'll tell the user -ENOMEM and continue happily on my way' allocations and 'If you fail this I lose track of hardware state and all is fucked till we reboot' ones.
-- dwmw2
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