Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 May 2016 16:04:10 +0100 | From | One Thousand Gnomes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: add config option to select the initial overcommit mode |
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> > Perhaps Sebastian's choice could be made to depend on CONFIG_EMBEDDED, > > rather than CONFIG_EXPERT? > > Even if the overcommit behavior is different on those systems the > primary question hasn't been answered yet. Why cannot this be done from > the userspace? In other words what wouldn't work properly?
Most allocations in C have no mechanism to report failure.
Stakc expansion failure is not reportable. Copy on write failure is not reportable and so on.
Alan
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