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From: Matthew Hall <mhall-Hv3ogNYU3JfZZajBQzqCxQ@public.gmane.org>
To: Neil Horman <nhorman-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: "dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org" <dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add free hugepage function
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:23:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141030032324.GC3286@mhcomputing.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141029153212.GB14253-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:32:12AM -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> > 
> Well, abnormal termination results in abnormal consequences.  You expect
> garbage to get left behind of a program crashes, so I wouldn't really worry
> about that too much.  If you really wanted to you can register chained handlers
> for SIGSEGV/SIGBUS/etc to catch those conditions, but honestly, that seems like
> overkill.  If a program that uses shared resources terminates abnormally, its
> well understood that those shared resources may not get released properly, and
> manual intervention is required to clean them up
> 
> Neil

Perhaps true. But also one of the top irritations with POSIX SHMEM. ;)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-30  3:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-29  2:54 [PATCH] add free hugepage function linhaifeng
2014-10-29  3:27 ` Qiu, Michael
     [not found]   ` <533710CFB86FA344BFBF2D6802E60286C7CAAB-0J0gbvR4kThpB2pF5aRoyrfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2014-10-29  3:44     ` Matthew Hall
     [not found]       ` <20141029034437.GA29486-Hv3ogNYU3JfZZajBQzqCxQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-10-29  5:14         ` Linhaifeng
2014-10-29  5:26       ` Qiu, Michael
     [not found]         ` <533710CFB86FA344BFBF2D6802E60286C7CB42-0J0gbvR4kThpB2pF5aRoyrfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2014-10-29  6:49           ` Linhaifeng
     [not found]             ` <54508DE1.9090908-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-10-29 10:26               ` Bruce Richardson
2014-10-29 14:27                 ` Neil Horman
     [not found]                   ` <20141029142745.GA14253-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2014-10-29 15:22                     ` Ramia, Kannan Babu
     [not found]                       ` <682698A055A0F44AA47192B20141149711B6074C-yHIBzpp8AekFyVwBAnZdSLfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2014-10-29 15:32                         ` Neil Horman
     [not found]                           ` <20141029153212.GB14253-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2014-10-29 16:47                             ` Bruce Richardson
2014-10-30  3:23                             ` Matthew Hall [this message]
     [not found]                               ` <20141030032324.GC3286-Hv3ogNYU3JfZZajBQzqCxQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-10-30 10:18                                 ` Neil Horman
     [not found]                                   ` <20141030101856.GA24783-B26myB8xz7F8NnZeBjwnZQMhkBWG/bsMQH7oEaQurus@public.gmane.org>
2014-10-30 14:56                                     ` Matthew Hall

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