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

Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:34:17 +0100


On March 7, 2002 03:43 pm, Alan Cox wrote:
> And if we are OOM - we want to return NULL

Oh, right, it lets an allocator that didn't 100% need the page use a
fallback strategy, but for that we probably want a different interface
anyway, such as a GFP flag that says 'fail if this looks hard to get'.

-- 
Daniel
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