Re: [RFC] Arch option to touch newly allocated pages

David Woodhouse
2002-03-07T22:44:51Z

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.

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dwmw2