Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 07:51:18 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, wollman@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: malloc(..., M_WAITOK) found harmful Message-ID: <199701151551.HAA07423@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Jan 1997 00:51:05 %2B1100." <199701151351.AAA24268@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Here mbinit() calls m_clalloc() with the M_DONTWAIT flag and m_clalloc() >calls kmem_malloc() with the M_NOWAIT flag, but the flag is not passed >on to vm_map_insert() and vm_map_entry_create() eventually calls malloc() >with the M_WAITOK flag. vm_map_create() always uses M_WAITOK. Hmmm. I don't see how this can happen since the map is mb_map and vm_map_entry_create does special things in this case to make sure that malloc is NOT called. Please explain... -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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