Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:03:04 -0400 From: Anthony Jenkins <abjenkins@attbi.com> To: Don Lewis <dl-freebsd@catspoiler.org> Cc: joe@tao.org.uk, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KSE M-III status & junior hacker project. Message-ID: <200207090903.04266.abjenkins@attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <200207082347.g68Nlhwr002091@gw.catspoiler.org> References: <200207082347.g68Nlhwr002091@gw.catspoiler.org>
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On Monday 2002-July-08 19:47, Don Lewis wrote: > 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 ther= e'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. Thanks... I'll take a look at this tonight after work. -- Anthony Jenkins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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