Update contigmalloc(9)'s manpage to reflect usage of the malloc_type

argument and that allocation occurs from the end of the address space
backward (still first-fit).
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green 2004-08-10 14:47:12 +00:00
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@ -90,7 +90,8 @@ The
function does not sleep waiting for memory resources to be freed up,
but instead scans available physical memory a small number of times
for a suitably sized free address range before giving up.
Memory allocation is done on a first-fit basis.
Memory allocation is done on a first-fit basis, starting from the
top of the provided address range.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The
.Fn contigmalloc
@ -120,11 +121,3 @@ is zero, or if
or
.Fa boundary
is not a power of two.
.Sh BUGS
The
.Fa type
argument to
.Fn contigmalloc
and
.Fn contigfree
is ignored.