NAME

vmem - virtual memory allocator

DESCRIPTION

The vmem is a general purpose resource allocator. Despite its name, it can be used for arbitrary resources other than virtual memory.

CODE REFERENCES

This section describes places within the NetBSD source tree where actual code implementing the vmem subsystem can be found. All pathnames are relative to /usr/src.

The vmem subsystem is implemented within the file sys/kern/subr_vmem.c.

SEE ALSO

intro(9), memoryallocators(9), vmem_alloc(9), vmem_create(9), vmem_destroy(9), vmem_free(9), vmem_xalloc(9), vmem_xfree(9)

AUTHORS

This implementation of vmem was written by YAMAMOTO Takashi
.