From: Linus Torvalds > Sent: 14 April 2021 21:22 > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 1:10 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > There's a philosophical point to be discussed here which you're skating > > right over! Should rust-in-the-linux-kernel provide the same memory > > allocation APIs as the rust-standard-library, or should it provide a Rusty > > API to the standard-linux-memory-allocation APIs? > > Yeah, I think that the standard Rust API may simply not be acceptable > inside the kernel, if it has similar behavior to the (completely > broken) C++ "new" operator. ISTM that having memory allocation failure cause a user process to exit is a complete failure in something designed to run as and kind of service program. There are all sorts of reasons why malloc() might fail. You almost never want a 'real' program to abort on one. David - Registered Address Lakeside, Bramley Road, Mount Farm, Milton Keynes, MK1 1PT, UK Registration No: 1397386 (Wales)
