Re: Kernel is unstable

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 12:16:08PM +0300, Ivan Stepnikov wrote:
>                 if(p==malloc(block)){

Side note: I guess here you meant:

		  if ((p = malloc(block)) {

Make sure you catch when malloc returns null because of out of memory (the out
of memory in your case happened in the NORMAL zone).

Still the fact it can deadlock the machine is a kernel bug in the memory
management. Probably the 3.5G patch per-task makes simpler to trigger it
because it decreases the size of the normal zone to a few houndred of mbytes.

Andrea