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

Alan Cox
2002-03-07T19:09:02Z

> > So it can return NULL?
>
> Returning null here won't help if the caller doesn't have a fallback, or if the fallback
> is unacceptable, such as losing a filesystem transaction.

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