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
.