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| author | asmodai <asmodai@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-04-30 14:26:22 +0000 |
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| committer | asmodai <asmodai@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-04-30 14:26:22 +0000 |
| commit | 410ec4b478e37fb41e18d62c1834cfd9d4f84011 (patch) | |
| tree | a566158e915b02d155900ecb54140e2404763be3 /share/man/man9/zone.9 | |
| parent | 7e4f7cb51e117e6f3a007cce6700ecc56387e1d2 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-410ec4b478e37fb41e18d62c1834cfd9d4f84011.zip FreeBSD-src-410ec4b478e37fb41e18d62c1834cfd9d4f84011.tar.gz | |
Document uma_zalloc() behaviour.
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diff --git a/share/man/man9/zone.9 b/share/man/man9/zone.9 index b2581f7..8382a41 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/zone.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/zone.9 @@ -79,10 +79,23 @@ fields mentioned above. .Pp To allocate an item from a zone, simply call .Fn uma_zalloc -with a pointer to that zone; it will return a pointer to an item, or +with a pointer to that zone +and set the +.Fa wait +argument to +.Dv M_WAITOK +or +.Dv M_NOWAIT +depending on whether or not to block while allocating memory for this zone, +should we run out. +It will return a pointer to an item if successful, +or .Dv NULL in the rare case where all items in the zone are in use and the -allocator is unable to grow the zone. +allocator is unable to grow the zone +or when +.Dv M_NOWAIT +is specified. .Pp Items are released back to the zone from which they were allocated by calling |
