From: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: _threadmalloc() size>100000000; shouldn't be totalmalloc?
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 10:32:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEoi9W64arA=b+ypEaRvW89k3KiTo_T+OXixSmPDqJqR5hoOZQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f9acc60-147c-8ce9-1b20-caad249e8e87@SDF.ORG>
On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 10:22 AM adr <adr@sdf.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jun 2022, Dan Cross wrote:
> > [snip]
> > Given the name of the function (`_threadmalloc`), I'd guess that this isn't
> > intended for general use, but rather, for the internal consumption of the
> > thread library, where indeed such a large allocation would likely be an
> > error (bear in mind this code was developed on 32-bit machines with RAMs
> > measured in Megabytes, not Gigabytes).
>
> No, it's used also when creating a channel and setting a thread's
> stack size.
You mean by `newthread` and `chancreate`? Those are part of the
thread library. Notice that there are no callers outside of /sys/src/libthread.
- Dan C.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-26 9:50 [9fans] " adr
2022-06-28 13:00 ` [9fans] " adr
2022-06-28 13:50 ` Dan Cross
2022-06-28 14:21 ` adr
2022-06-28 14:32 ` Dan Cross [this message]
2022-06-28 15:36 ` adr
2022-06-28 15:57 ` Dan Cross
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