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Date:      Fri, 16 Nov 2012 06:40:40 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Alan Cox <alc@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r243137 - head/share/man/man9
Message-ID:  <201211160640.qAG6eeW1033958@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: alc
Date: Fri Nov 16 06:40:40 2012
New Revision: 243137
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/243137

Log:
  M_USE_RESERVE is no longer deprecated.  It is once again supported.
  
  Reviewed by:	kib

Modified:
  head/share/man/man9/malloc.9

Modified: head/share/man/man9/malloc.9
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man9/malloc.9	Fri Nov 16 06:32:38 2012	(r243136)
+++ head/share/man/man9/malloc.9	Fri Nov 16 06:40:40 2012	(r243137)
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 .\" $NetBSD: malloc.9,v 1.3 1996/11/11 00:05:11 lukem Exp $
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd January 28, 2012
+.Dd November 15, 2012
 .Dt MALLOC 9
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -153,13 +153,12 @@ if
 .Dv M_WAITOK
 is specified.
 .It Dv M_USE_RESERVE
-Indicates that the system can dig into its reserve in order to obtain the
-requested memory.
-This option used to be called
-.Dv M_KERNEL
-but has been renamed to something more obvious.
-This option has been deprecated and is slowly being removed from the kernel,
-and so should not be used with any new programming.
+Indicates that the system can use its reserve of memory to satisfy the
+request.
+This option should only be used in combination with 
+.Dv M_NOWAIT
+when an allocation failure cannot be tolerated by the caller without
+catastrophic effects on the system.
 .El
 .Pp
 Exactly one of either



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