CVS commit: src/sys

["Taylor R Campbell" <riastradh%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    src
Committed By:   riastradh
Date:           Wed Apr 12 06:48:08 UTC 2023

Modified Files:
        src/sys/kern: uipc_mbuf.c
        src/sys/sys: mbuf.h

Log Message:
mbuf(9): New m_get_n, m_gethdr_n.

m_get_n(how, type, alignbytes, nbytes) returns an mbuf with no packet
header having space for nbytes, with an internal buffer pointer
aligned by alignbytes (typically ETHER_ALIGN or similar, if not
zero).

m_gethdr_n(how, type, alignbytes, nbytes) does the same but for an
mbuf with a packet header.

These return NULL on failure, which can happen either:
(a) because how is M_DONTWAIT and allocating memory would sleep, or
(b) because alignbytes + nbytes > MCLBYTES.

On exit, m_len is set to nbytes, as is m_pkthdr.len for m_gethdr_n.

These should be used to systematically replace all calls to m_get,
m_gethdr, MGET, MGETHDR, and m_getcl.  Most calls to m_clget and
MCLGET will probably evaporate as a consequence.

Proposed on tech-net last year:
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-net/2022/07/16/msg008285.html


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.250 -r1.251 src/sys/kern/uipc_mbuf.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.237 -r1.238 src/sys/sys/mbuf.h

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