Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/xen/xen

To: Mindaugas Rasiukevicius <rmind%netbsd.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/xen/xen
From: Jean-Yves Migeon <jeanyves.migeon%free.fr@localhost>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:52:26 +0200

On 18.04.2011 10:35, Mindaugas Rasiukevicius wrote:
> We used to check the return of big size allocations, when kmem(9) could
> fail even with KM_SLEEP due to KVA starvation.  However, pretty much all
> kernel does not perform checks for smaller allocations and since the bug
> was fixed - we are no longer checking for big ones as well.
> 
> This applies to all allocators.

So, any thread sleeping for an allocation cannot be interrupted?

-- 
Jean-Yves Migeon
jeanyves.migeon%free.fr@localhost

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