uma_zalloc() not checking flags

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Jul 18 04:35:36 PDT 2003


In message <20030718132616.G972 at beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de>, Harti Brandt write
s:
>
>Given that uma_zalloc() has the same flags as malloc(9) shouldn't it check
>these flags like malloc(9) does? I would think we could copy the #ifdef
>INVARIANTS section at the beginning of malloc(9) to uma_zalloc_arg().
>
>I just found a large number of calls in the ATM code that have just
>M_ZERO or even 0 flags.
>
>Anything against this check?

Good point, please implement!

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