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From: mark tinguely <tinguely@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>
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Subject: Re: contigfree, free what?
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I have a potentially silly question about contigmalloc1(), if the very
unlikely occurance that the kernel VM space ran out, (the vm_map_findspace()
failed) wouldn't we want to return the chunk of contiguous physical space
back on the free queue before we return an allocation failure?

--mark tinguely.

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