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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: malloc(..., M_WAITOK) found harmful
To: phk@critter.dk.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 14:17:17 -0500 (EST)
Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, dg@root.com, bugs@freebsd.org, dyson@freebsd.org,
        wollman@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <28145.853355447@critter.dk.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jan 15, 97 08:10:47 pm
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> 
> In message <199701151754.EAA31434@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes:
> >>   Arrg!!!! I didn't even know about "mcl_map". Okay, this is easy to fix -
> >>mcl_map simply needs to be added to the list of maps in vm_map_entry_create.
> >
> >The maps are special-cased in too many other places.  I added a check for
> >mcl_map after all the relevant checks for mb_map in vm_map.c.  It is also
> >missing in vm_object.c.  I think it is already handled right in vm_kern.c.
> 
> Isn't it time to associate an attribute with the map, where we can see
> this special casing, rather than have these if() statements get longer
> and longer... ?
> 
Yes.

John