:> > There was some talk about the fact that malloc(..M_CANWAIT)
:> > can now return with a failure. Is that true?
:>
:> Yes; it's necessary to do this to allow some chance of avoiding
:> deadlock.
:
:Ouch! Is everything in src-sys already checking the return value of an
M_WAITOK?
:
: Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ___ ___
It looks like malloc() can return NULL if the kmem_malloc() fails.
kmem_malloc() can only fail in the M_WAITOK case if the KVM map is full.
If the system is simply low on memory, kmem_malloc() will block.
So malloc() will generally not return NULL even in low memory situations
unless the KVM map fills up, which isn't supposed to happen but can in
certain severe circumstances. Callers should therefore check for NULL.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dil...@backplane.com>
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