From owner-cvs-all Thu May 2 7:18: 0 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3863837B41D for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 07:17:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 16801 invoked from network); 2 May 2002 14:17:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 2 May 2002 14:17:23 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g42EHNF07616; Thu, 2 May 2002 10:17:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200205020722.g427MJM10914@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 10:16:25 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Jeff Roberson Subject: RE: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_malloc.c src/sys/vm uma_core.c Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 02-May-2002 Jeff Roberson wrote: > jeff 2002/05/02 00:22:19 PDT > > Modified files: > sys/kern kern_malloc.c > sys/vm uma_core.c uma_dbg.c > sys/sys malloc.h > Log: > malloc/free(9) no longer require Giant. Use the malloc_mtx to protect the > mallochash. Mallochash is going to go away as soon as I introduce the > kfree/kmalloc api and partially overhaul the malloc wrapper. This can't > happen > until all users of the malloc api that expect memory to be aligned on the > size > of the allocation are fixed. Can malloc() still block and still possibly obtain Giant internally? If so, malloc() should still not be called with other locks held. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message