the mbuf allocator flags {M_TRYWAIT, M_DONTWAIT}.
o Fix a bpf_compat issue where malloc() was defined to just call
bpf_alloc() and pass the 'canwait' flag(s) along. It's been changed
to call bpf_alloc() but pass the corresponding M_TRYWAIT or M_DONTWAIT
flag (and only one of those two).
Submitted by: Hiten Pandya <hiten@unixdaemons.com> (hiten->commit_count++)
This is because calls with M_WAIT (now M_TRYWAIT) may not wait
forever when nothing is available for allocation, and may end up
returning NULL. Hopefully we now communicate more of the right thing
to developers and make it very clear that it's necessary to check whether
calls with M_(TRY)WAIT also resulted in a failed allocation.
M_TRYWAIT basically means "try harder, block if necessary, but don't
necessarily wait forever." The time spent blocking is tunable with
the kern.ipc.mbuf_wait sysctl.
M_WAIT is now deprecated but still defined for the next little while.
* Fix a typo in a comment in mbuf.h
* Fix some code that was actually passing the mbuf subsystem's M_WAIT to
malloc(). Made it pass M_WAITOK instead. If we were ever to redefine the
value of the M_WAIT flag, this could have became a big problem.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
