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

[Alan Cox]

> [e-mail] said:
> >  Not having a fallback is unacceptable. Thats the real problem. You
> > can't go around pandering to sloppy coders who can't work a memory
> > allocator 
> 
> OTOH there is perhaps some justification for distinguishing between 'If you 
> fail this I'll tell the user -ENOMEM and continue happily on my way' 
> allocations and 'If you fail this I lose track of hardware state and all is 
> fucked till we reboot' ones.

None at all. If you needed the memory before you committed to an operation
you should have reserved it before you started. See "sloppy coders"