This is because calls with M_WAIT (now M_TRYWAIT) may not wait
forever when nothing is available for allocation, and may end up
returning NULL. Hopefully we now communicate more of the right thing
to developers and make it very clear that it's necessary to check whether
calls with M_(TRY)WAIT also resulted in a failed allocation.
M_TRYWAIT basically means "try harder, block if necessary, but don't
necessarily wait forever." The time spent blocking is tunable with
the kern.ipc.mbuf_wait sysctl.
M_WAIT is now deprecated but still defined for the next little while.
* Fix a typo in a comment in mbuf.h
* Fix some code that was actually passing the mbuf subsystem's M_WAIT to
malloc(). Made it pass M_WAITOK instead. If we were ever to redefine the
value of the M_WAIT flag, this could have became a big problem.
Don't check for a null pointer if malloc called with M_WAITOK.
Submitted by: josh@zipperup.org
Submitted by: Robert Drehmel <robd@gmx.net>
Approved by: bp
Add lockdestroy() and appropriate invocations, which corresponds to
lockinit() and must be called to clean up after a lockmgr lock is no
longer needed.
is an application space macro and the applications are supposed to be free
to use it as they please (but cannot). This is consistant with the other
BSD's who made this change quite some time ago. More commits to come.
kernel, but gcc provides a pessimal builtin for it.
Makefile.i386:
Added a variable (CONF_CFLAGS) for configuration-specific compiler flags.
LINT:
Use CONF_CFLAGS to inhibit use of gcc builtins.
Poul-Henning Kamp
Boris Popov
Bosko Milekic
David Malone
Jason Evans
Jake Burkholder
Peter Wemm
Bruce Evans
Archie Cobbs