RE: [HPDD-discuss] [PATCH 2/11] Staging: lustre: fld: Use kzalloc and kfree

Simmons, James A.
2015-05-01T22:59:41Z

>> Yes the LARGE functions do the switching. I was expecting also patches to remove the
>> OBD_ALLOC_LARGE functions as well which is not the case here. I do have one question still. The
>> macro __OBD_MALLOC_VERBOSE allowed the ability to simulate memory allocation failures at
>> a certain percentage rate. Does something exist in the kernel to duplicate that functionality?
>> Once these macros are gone we lose the ability to simulate high memory allocation failures.
>
>Yes, there are things like https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/25/64
>So I think the API is even riher compared to what our old wrapper code was able to do.

We should look to integrating that into the test suite.