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author | green <green@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-08-10 14:47:12 +0000 |
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committer | green <green@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-08-10 14:47:12 +0000 |
commit | 7ba21185161ba9b9a108a43abf37aad77a44e364 (patch) | |
tree | c8826a84b506f7abb41620ea415b9c48dd1b0194 | |
parent | d9efb7d719f6af6d49eab8bebf9f2846589c95e1 (diff) | |
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Update contigmalloc(9)'s manpage to reflect usage of the malloc_type
argument and that allocation occurs from the end of the address space
backward (still first-fit).
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man9/contigmalloc.9 | 11 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/contigmalloc.9 b/share/man/man9/contigmalloc.9 index 2b2d6f7..fc74ae5 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/contigmalloc.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/contigmalloc.9 @@ -90,7 +90,8 @@ The function does not sleep waiting for memory resources to be freed up, but instead scans available physical memory a small number of times for a suitably sized free address range before giving up. -Memory allocation is done on a first-fit basis. +Memory allocation is done on a first-fit basis, starting from the +top of the provided address range. .Sh RETURN VALUES The .Fn contigmalloc @@ -120,11 +121,3 @@ is zero, or if or .Fa boundary is not a power of two. -.Sh BUGS -The -.Fa type -argument to -.Fn contigmalloc -and -.Fn contigfree -is ignored. |