Driver Verifier, low resources testing

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> When testing low resources response, does verifier at any point "free"
> resources to permit the driver to function or does it just hog them?

It just fails some ExAllocatePoolWithTag and other allocation calls at random.

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StorageCraft Corporation
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But how does it unfail them? Can you repeatedly request the resource until
Verifier releases the resource, or it will it always fail that request until
some kind of "reset". If so then how do you do that "reset"? Change IRQL?
Return from the driver and let the application retry?

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Gary G. Little
Seagate Technologies, LLC

"Maxim S. Shatskih" <maxim@storagecraft.com> wrote in message
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> > When testing low resources response, does verifier at any point "free"
> > resources to permit the driver to function or does it just hog them?
>
> It just fails some ExAllocatePoolWithTag and other allocation calls at
random.
>
> --
> Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
> StorageCraft Corporation
> maxim@storagecraft.com
> http://www.storagecraft.com
>
>

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you gracefully fail. what graceful means to your driver is up to you. in
all the drivers i have written, i just return STATUS_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES.
if you require the resources for forward progress, you need to create a
lmiited cache of what you need and fall back onto that cache when you can't
dynamically allocate the required structures.

d

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"Gary G. Little" <gary.g.little.nospam@seagate.com> wrote in message
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> But how does it unfail them? Can you repeatedly request the resource until
> Verifier releases the resource, or it will it always fail that request
until
> some kind of "reset". If so then how do you do that "reset"? Change IRQL?
> Return from the driver and let the application retry?
>
> --
> Gary G. Little
> Seagate Technologies, LLC
>
> "Maxim S. Shatskih" <maxim@storagecraft.com> wrote in message
> news:cacam6$p4b$1@gavrilo.mtu.ru...
> > > When testing low resources response, does verifier at any point "free"
> > > resources to permit the driver to function or does it just hog them?
> >
> > It just fails some ExAllocatePoolWithTag and other allocation calls at
> random.
> >
> > --
> > Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
> > StorageCraft Corporation
> > maxim@storagecraft.com
> > http://www.storagecraft.com
> >
> >
>
>

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"Gary G. Little" <gary.g.little.nospam@seagate.com> wrote:
>
>But how does it unfail them? Can you repeatedly request the resource until
>Verifier releases the resource, or it will it always fail that request until
>some kind of "reset".

You aren't supposed to recover/retry. That defeats the whole purpose. The
point of the "low resource simulation" is to see whether your driver
gracefully fails when memory really IS low, as opposed to just exploding.

>If so then how do you do that "reset"? Change IRQL?
>Return from the driver and let the application retry?

As Don suggested, you return a reasonable error. The application will
presumably die, the instance will be closed, and your driver will have the
chance to clean itself up.

I hope it is obvious that the "low resource simulation" is not intended to
be enabled on a production machine.
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Well, I am failing it gracefully, though I am doing a retry to see if
resources are released before failing the IRP. I had actually forgotten I
had LR testing turned on, so I originally was addressing why the driver was
failing a transfer. Once I realized it was Verifier "doin' it's thang" I
realized the driver was functioning properly, but wanted it to recover in
the retry loop. If that is going to happen it will have to be on a request
to retry from the application with a new IRP.

Thanks for the assist gentlemen ...

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Gary G. Little
Seagate Technologies, LLC

"Doron Holan [MS]" <doronh@nospam.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> you gracefully fail. what graceful means to your driver is up to you. in
> all the drivers i have written, i just return
STATUS_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES.
> if you require the resources for forward progress, you need to create a
> lmiited cache of what you need and fall back onto that cache when you
can't
> dynamically allocate the required structures.
>
> d
>
> --
> Please do not send e-mail directly to this alias. this alias is for
> newsgroup purposes only.
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
>
>
> "Gary G. Little" <gary.g.little.nospam@seagate.com> wrote in message
> news:2Yiyc.5752$FN4.596@newssvr22.news.prodigy.com...
> > But how does it unfail them? Can you repeatedly request the resource
until
> > Verifier releases the resource, or it will it always fail that request
> until
> > some kind of "reset". If so then how do you do that "reset"? Change
IRQL?
> > Return from the driver and let the application retry?
> >
> > --
> > Gary G. Little
> > Seagate Technologies, LLC
> >
> > "Maxim S. Shatskih" <maxim@storagecraft.com> wrote in message
> > news:cacam6$p4b$1@gavrilo.mtu.ru...
> > > > When testing low resources response, does verifier at any point
"free"
> > > > resources to permit the driver to function or does it just hog them?
> > >
> > > It just fails some ExAllocatePoolWithTag and other allocation calls at
> > random.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
> > > StorageCraft Corporation
> > > maxim@storagecraft.com
> > > http://www.storagecraft.com
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>