On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 06:23:57PM -0400, Peter Dufault wrote:
[snip]
> I guess I'm suggesting a clarification on when you want to set this flag.
> If I want to be sure I get my zeroed out stuff real soon should I use
> still use bzero?
No. What he means is that this 'zeroing process' will happen
> I have introduced the M_ZERO flag to the kernel malloc, which provides
> the service to bzero() the memory allocted.
>
> In the kernel sources, the archetypical change to use this facility
> looks like this:
>
> Old code:
>databuf = malloc(length, M_DEVBUF, M_WAITOK);
>
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 09:07:48PM +0200, Jesper Skriver wrote:
> What about using something like
>
> #if defined(__FreeBSD__) && __FreeBSD_version >= 5x
>
> This would probably make it easier for multi OS code, and also make
> it easier to MFC some of the affected code into -stable ??
I
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 06:54:25PM +0100, David Malone wrote:
> > Now, if one or two people will review this patch and verify that
> > LINT & GENERIC kernels compile the same, we're set for commit...
>
> It works fine with GENERIC - atleast I tested a buildworld with
> sources build with it. I do
> Now, if one or two people will review this patch and verify that
> LINT & GENERIC kernels compile the same, we're set for commit...
It works fine with GENERIC - atleast I tested a buildworld with
sources build with it. I don't think LINT compiles at the moment,
atleast it seems to get stuck in
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Malone writes:
>On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 09:48:47AM -0400, Garrett Rooney wrote:
>> > If anybody is looking for a simple task to perform in the FreeBSD
>> > kernel: this is it.
>> >
>Before anyone else starts looking at this, I've collected and
>cleaned up the
On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 09:48:47AM -0400, Garrett Rooney wrote:
> > If anybody is looking for a simple task to perform in the FreeBSD
> > kernel: this is it.
> >
> > A quick grep tells me that there are at least 91 files in the src/sys
> > tree which could use this flag to simplify and optimize t
> If anybody is looking for a simple task to perform in the FreeBSD
> kernel: this is it.
>
> A quick grep tells me that there are at least 91 files in the src/sys
> tree which could use this flag to simplify and optimize the code.
i'll probably start looking at these this week sometime...
some
I'd be willing to take this task.
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From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 9:12 PM
Subject: Junior Kernel Hacker Task: M_ZERO
[...]
> If anybody is looking for a simple
In <17100.972069144@critter>, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> If anybody is looking for a simple task to perform in the FreeBSD
> kernel: this is it.
Is it necessary to announce it somewhere, when I want to do that?
>Submit changes to the maintainer of the file (if any) or
>with send-
I have introduced the M_ZERO flag to the kernel malloc, which provides
the service to bzero() the memory allocted.
In the kernel sources, the archetypical change to use this facility
looks like this:
Old code:
databuf = malloc(length, M_DEVBUF, M_WAITOK);
bzero(dat
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