Den 20-Mar-00 13:12:16 skrev James Sutherland fĝlgende om "Re: Some questions about linux kernel.":
> On Sun, 19 Mar 2000 15:50:07 -0600, you wrote:
>>NOPE - if the process requests it and is granted it, then it should have
>>access to it. It is not up to the system to say "here it is, but don't use
>>that part of it, because I really didn't give it".
> malloc() just allocates address SPACE. TOUCHING the memory then
> populates that space, which is how I can use malloc() for a nice,
> simple sparse matrix implementation. (On Win32, you have to mess
> around trapping exceptions in userland and allocating the memory
> yourself...)
Note that malloc() is documented as allocating memory, regardless of
whether you actually touch it or not. Any programmer relies on that.
>>We are talking about the sum of all concurrent requests, and the system
>>aborting when part of the requests already granted turns out to not be
>>granted.
> No. The malloc() call requested address space, and that succeeded -
> the address space was available.
> What is NOT available, however, is memory to populate that area fully.
> So what?
So you have a broken malloc().
> I could well be using malloc() to allocate a SPARSE matrix,
> in which case I certainly do NOT want it to populate the whole thing!
Then using malloc() to create the matrix in one go is the wrong thing to
do.
> I would be seriously irritated if your disk quota system denied me
> permission to create a sparse file on the basis that, if fully
> populated, it would overrun my quota. Why apply the same system to
> memory?
An lseek()/write() combination is documented to permit the file system
to create a sparse file. malloc() etc. has no permission to create sparse
memory blocks. That's why.
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