[ros-dev] Janitorial Task - Get rid of TAG_NONE

[Emanuele Aliberti]

Steven Edwards wrote:

>Hi,
>Royce suggested that we need to get rid of TAG_NONE and I remeber EA posting a list of tags a
>while back so maybe its a good time to look at the issue again. 
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http://reactos.com:8080/pipermail/ros-dev/2004-October/000378.html

The complete and most updated list of pool tags is in the file
"pooltag.txt", which is distributed with the PoolMon tool.

>We have quite a few cases where ExAllocatePool() and ExAllocatePoolWithQuota() is calling
>ExAllocatePagedPoolWithTag ( TAG_NONE ). I propose that we change the headers for these two
>functions to throw a compile error if we try to use them internally. We would still keep it
>implemented to support third party drivers but this way it will force developers to not use them.
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I agree. Using untagged memory in kernel mode should be as fatal as
calling an unimplemented api.

Emanuele