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Date:      Wed, 24 Jan 2018 13:51:07 -0500
From:      Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, "Conrad E. Meyer" <cem@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r328218 - in head/sys: amd64/amd64 arm/xscale/ixp425 arm64/arm64 cam cam/ctl compat/ndis dev/aacraid dev/advansys dev/ath dev/beri/virtio dev/bnxt dev/bwn dev/ciss dev/cxgbe/crypto dev/...
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On 24/01/2018 13:40, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On 01/24/18 19:28, Warner Losh wrote:
>> Does mallocarray(10 ,1Gb) panic on i386? It does not. It should.
>
> Hi,
>
> If M_WAITOK is specified, then sleep forever and print a message.
> Else return NULL ?
>

FWIW, I suggested a panic for M_WAITOK and returning NULL for M_NOWAIT, 
but cem didn't like it because it was inconsistent.

I think the current argument is more about the size/trigger than the 
behavior though.

Cheers,
Pedro.




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