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

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 07.12.2009 10:47, schrieb 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.

You could simply use normal malloc as an alternative API there. After
all, the only thing that qemu_malloc adds is the OOM check (and
currently also the zero check).

Kevin