Author: alc Date: Fri Nov 16 06:40:40 2012 New Revision: 243137 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/243137
Log: M_USE_RESERVE is no longer deprecated. It is once again supported. Reviewed by: kib Modified: head/share/man/man9/malloc.9 Modified: head/share/man/man9/malloc.9 ============================================================================== --- head/share/man/man9/malloc.9 Fri Nov 16 06:32:38 2012 (r243136) +++ head/share/man/man9/malloc.9 Fri Nov 16 06:40:40 2012 (r243137) @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ .\" $NetBSD: malloc.9,v 1.3 1996/11/11 00:05:11 lukem Exp $ .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd January 28, 2012 +.Dd November 15, 2012 .Dt MALLOC 9 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -153,13 +153,12 @@ if .Dv M_WAITOK is specified. .It Dv M_USE_RESERVE -Indicates that the system can dig into its reserve in order to obtain the -requested memory. -This option used to be called -.Dv M_KERNEL -but has been renamed to something more obvious. -This option has been deprecated and is slowly being removed from the kernel, -and so should not be used with any new programming. +Indicates that the system can use its reserve of memory to satisfy the +request. +This option should only be used in combination with +.Dv M_NOWAIT +when an allocation failure cannot be tolerated by the caller without +catastrophic effects on the system. .El .Pp Exactly one of either _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"