According to code comments the original motivation was to allow for
malloc_type_internal changes without ABI breakage. This can be trivially
accomplished by providing spare fields and versioning the struct, as
implemented in the patch below.
The upshots are one less memory indirection on each alloc and disappearance
of mt_zone.
Reviewed by: markj
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27104
Each malloc/free was testing dtrace_malloc_enabled and forcing
extra reads from the malloc type struct to see if perhaps a
dtmalloc probe was on.
Treat it like lockstat and sdt: have a global bolean.
function name of its corresponding DTrace probes. These descriptions may
contain whitespace, but probe names cannot, so just replace any whitespace
with underscores when creating probes.
MFC after: 1 week