dillon

I have sent a headsup to bugs list of DragonflyBSD, which mentions the recent bugfixes on FreeBSD-CURRENT committed by Dr. Alan Cox.

Recently there were several important developments taken place in DragonflyBSD.

We saw:

Dillon wrote:

Well, this is fun. There are over 460 files in the 5.x source tree (360 in DFly) that make calls to malloc(… M_NOWAIT), and so far about 80% of the calls that I’ve reviewed generate inappropriate side effects when/if a failure occurs. CAM is the biggest violator… it even has a few panic() conditionals if a malloc(… M_NOWAIT) fails. Not Fun!