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author | Otto Moerbeek <otto@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2016-07-06 20:32:03 +0000 |
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committer | Otto Moerbeek <otto@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2016-07-06 20:32:03 +0000 |
commit | 5a1fbc606ce54af07ba7d7ccd5b37de60d953bc0 (patch) | |
tree | 7caefe530b96bb07d13a4c0eb46ef58f763ab921 /share/man | |
parent | 5f70d465bea51a3206aa02e7e445a715bdc97f33 (diff) |
J/j is a three valued option, document and fix code to actuall support that
with a little help from jmc@ for the man page bits
ok jca@ and a reluctant tedu@
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man')
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man5/malloc.conf.5 | 30 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/malloc.conf.5 b/share/man/man5/malloc.conf.5 index e8e9a823d2c..6fe15cf353a 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/malloc.conf.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/malloc.conf.5 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.conf.5,v 1.6 2016/02/19 23:27:17 tb Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: malloc.conf.5,v 1.7 2016/07/06 20:32:02 otto Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2012 Damien Miller <djm@openbsd.org> .\" Copyright (c) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Otto Moerbeek <otto@drijf.net> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: February 19 2016 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: July 6 2016 $ .Dt MALLOC.CONF 5 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ and finally looks at the global variable .Va malloc_options in the program. Each is scanned for the following flags. -Flags are single letters, uppercase means on, lowercase means off. +Flags are single letters. +Unless otherwise noted uppercase means on, lowercase means off. .Bl -tag -width indent .It Cm C .Dq Canaries . @@ -77,20 +78,23 @@ cause a segmentation fault upon any access. Pass a hint to the kernel about pages we don't use. If the machine is paging a lot this may help a bit. .It Cm J -.Dq Junk . -Fill some junk into the area allocated. +.Dq More junking . +Increase the junk level by one if it is smaller than 2. +.It Cm j +.Dq Less junking . +Decrease the junk level by one if it is larger than 0. +Junking writes some junk bytes into the area allocated. Currently junk is bytes of 0xd0 when allocating; this is pronounced .Dq Duh . \&:-) Freed chunks are filled with 0xdf. -.It Cm j -.Dq Don't Junk . -By default, small chunks are always junked, and the first part of pages -is junked after free. -The reuse of freed memory is delayed. -After the delay, the filling pattern is validated -and the process is aborted if the pattern was modified. -This option ensures that no junking is performed. +By default the junk level is 1: small chunks are always junked +and the first part of pages is junked after free. +After a delay (if not switched off by the F option), +the filling pattern is validated and the process is aborted if the pattern +was modified. +If the junk level is zero, no junking is performed. +For junk level 2, junking is done without size restrictions. .It Cm P .Dq Move allocations within a page. Allocations larger than half a page but smaller than a page |