Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Permit zero-sized qemu_malloc() & friends

[Avi Kivity]

On 12/06/2009 08:41 PM, malc wrote:
> Sure. My point is that sometimes failure to allocate is due to bugs,
> invalid input etc, and conversion to OOM aborts en masse, might have
> not been the best possible route to take, but most likely it was better
> than doing nothing.
>    

I agree.  Early oom handling does limit opportunities for recovery in 
the cases where it is possible/easy.  We can have an alternative API 
that doesn't do oom handling for those cases where it is desirable.

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