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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

  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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     [not found]         ` <98pNu-1pp-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-09-29  9:15           ` Out of memory management in embedded systems Bodo Eggert
     [not found]           ` <98v6u-1h1-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]             ` <98Qu9-170-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
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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