[$] Reservations for must-succeed memory allocations

When the schedulefor the 2015 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory Management Summit waslaid out, its authors optimistically set aside 30 minutes on the first dayfor the thorny issue of memory-allocation problems in low-memorysituations. That session (covered here)didn't get past the issue of whether small allocations should be allowed tofail, so the remainder of the discussion, focused on finding bettersolutions for the problem of allocations that simply cannot fail, waspushed into a plenary session on the second day.

With this article, LWN's coverage of the memory-management track at LSFMM2015 is complete; sessions from the filesystems track are being added aswell. It all can be found at the LWN LSFMM2015 page.