Re: [issue911] panic on kldload

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sepherosa Ziehau wrote:
> Sepherosa Ziehau <sepherosa@gmail.com> added the comment:
>
> On Jan 11, 2008 9:34 AM, Simon 'corecode' Schubert
> <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de> wrote:
> > Sepherosa Ziehau wrote:
> > > I don't think it's the problem of our M_WAITOK implementation.  You
> > > could change the caller to use other kmalloc flag so that the system
> > > will not panic; how to properly handle kmalloc failure in this case
> > > may be difficult.
> > I realize this.  However, we should avoid panicing if possible.  So why
> > not print a warning ("allocated more than the limit") and continue?  If
> What do you mean by "continue" here?

Just allocate some memory, even if you're over the limit.  It's not that 
we ran out of memory, it's just that we went over the (artificial) limit.

cheers
  simon