Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 16:47:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis <dl-freebsd@catspoiler.org> To: abjenkins@attbi.com Cc: joe@tao.org.uk, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KSE M-III status & junior hacker project. Message-ID: <200207082347.g68Nlhwr002091@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <200207081928.50162.abjenkins@attbi.com>
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On 8 Jul, Anthony Jenkins wrote: > I've been looking at the pcm code and I can see where it locks, then allocates > memory with the M_WAITOK flag thing. I'm wondering if there's a standard > procedure for fixing these... would I just nail down the malloc to a > non-sleepable one? Only if the the code can cope with malloc() failing and returning NULL if the memory isn't immediately available. In most cases a better solution is to allocate the memory before grabbing the lock. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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