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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: malloc(..., M_WAITOK) found harmful 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 07:51:18 -0800
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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