Re: [libvirt] [PATCH RFC 0/2] Report OOM on VIR_ALLOC failure
On 03/22/2013 07:44 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
Currently, our code is plenty of following scheme:
if (VIR_ALLOC(dummyPtr) < 0) {
virReportOOMError();
goto cleanup;
}
or something similar. What if we just move the OOM reporting into
VIR_ALLOC?
One thing you might want to consider is the case where the OOM is caused
by some bug in the code, for example incorrectly computing the size of a
buffer to allocate, or a loop that keeps allocating again and again
until failure. Currently we might get some useful information in the
form of the function and line number where the error occurred. With your
change that information would be lost.
Likely the times when this would be helpful would be extremely rare, but
just in case, you might want to think about having the VIR_ALLOC* macros
send __FILE__, __FUNCTION__, and __LINE__ to virAlloc* to be passed on
to a new variation of virReportOOMError() that takes those as args
rather than filling them out inline.