Messages in this thread | | | From | "Simmons, James A." <> | Subject | RE: [HPDD-discuss] [PATCH 2/11] Staging: lustre: fld: Use kzalloc and kfree | Date | Fri, 1 May 2015 22:59:41 +0000 |
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>> Yes the LARGE functions do the switching. I was expecting also patches to remove the >> OBD_ALLOC_LARGE functions as well which is not the case here. I do have one question still. The >> macro __OBD_MALLOC_VERBOSE allowed the ability to simulate memory allocation failures at >> a certain percentage rate. Does something exist in the kernel to duplicate that functionality? >> Once these macros are gone we lose the ability to simulate high memory allocation failures. > >Yes, there are things like https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/25/64 >So I think the API is even riher compared to what our old wrapper code was able to do.
We should look to integrating that into the test suite.
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