Re: [HPDD-discuss] [PATCH 2/11] Staging: lustre: fld: Use kzalloc and kfree

> Yes the LARGE functions do the switching. I was expecting also patches to remove the > OBD_ALLOC_LARGE functions as well which is not the case here. I do have one question still. The > macro __OBD_MALLOC_VERBOSE allowed the ability to simulate memory allocation failures at > a certain percentage rate. Does something exist in the kernel to duplicate that functionality? > Once these macros are gone we lose the ability to simulate high memory allocation failures. Yes, there are things like https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/25/64 So I think the API is even riher compared to what our old wrapper code was able to do.