svn commit: r282250 - head/sys/sys

[Davide Italiano]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Mariusz Zaborski <oshogbo at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> I'm talking about sys/kern/subr_nvlist.c.
>
> Yes. lib/libnv is compiling sys/kern/subr_nvlist.c.
> This is the reason why we have nv_malloc.
> One nv_malloc is for kernel:
>
> #define nv_malloc(size)    malloc((size), M_NVLIST, M_WAITOK)
>
> and second nv_malloc is for user-land:
>
> #define nv_malloc(size)    (malloc((size)):
>
> So in user-land all checks are still needed in sys/kern/subr_nvlist.c.
>
> Thanks,
> Mariusz Zaborski

It makes sense now, thanks.

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Davide

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