From: Markku Savela <msa@moth.iki.fi>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Out of memory management in embedded systems
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:58:24 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87odfj5krj.fsf@burp.tkv.asdf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <98Qu9-170-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (Abhishek Sagar's message of "Sat\, 29 Sep 2007 21\:50\:05 +0200")
How about just simple solution? Make it possible that "malloc" works
as it was originally intended: return NULL, if memory not available,
non-NULL only if allocation truly succeeded and is guaranteed..
Make kernel configuration option? (e.g. disable "over commit"
mis-feature :-)
--
Markku Savela
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-01 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2007-09-29 9:15 ` Out of memory management in embedded systems Bodo Eggert
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2007-10-01 7:58 ` Markku Savela [this message]
2007-10-01 8:13 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2007-10-01 16:27 ` david
2007-10-01 20:25 ` Robin Getz
2007-09-28 12:55 Daniel Spång
2007-09-28 13:09 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-09-28 13:30 ` Daniel Spång
2007-09-28 14:04 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-09-28 14:14 ` Daniel Spång
2007-09-28 15:16 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-09-28 20:58 ` Daniel Spång
2007-09-29 19:48 ` Abhishek Sagar
2007-09-28 14:17 ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-28 14:36 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-09-28 15:15 ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-28 23:00 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-09-29 1:59 ` Daniel Phillips
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