Messages in this thread | | | From | manfreds@colorful ... | Subject | Re: Many unchecked calls to kmalloc() in Linux 2.2.11 | Date | Sat, 14 Aug 1999 08:37:10 -0400 (EDT) |
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> There is no point handling the cases you cant get out of. If you look at > the kernel you will see a lot of cases where we dont check stuff because > a) it cant actually fail in the real world during init time Microsoft has written a simple OOM tester for Windows 2000: after 7 Minutes, the kernel begins to fail memory allocation (~ 5 % of all allocations). It's a requirement for the Windows Logo program that a kernel driver must not oops.
-- Manfred
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