'\" te .\" Copyright 1989 AT&T .\" Copyright (C) 2006, Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved .\" Copyright 2021 Tintri by DDN, Inc. All rights reserved. .\" The contents of this file are subject to the terms of the .\" Common Development and Distribution License (the "License"). .\" You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. .\" You can obtain a copy of the license at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE .\" or http://www.opensolaris.org/os/licensing. .\" See the License for the specific language governing permissions .\" and limitations under the License. .\" When distributing Covered Code, include this CDDL HEADER in each .\" file and include the License file at usr/src/OPENSOLARIS.LICENSE. .\" If applicable, add the following below this CDDL HEADER, with the .\" fields enclosed by brackets "[]" replaced with your own identifying .\" information: Portions Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner] .TH ESBALLOC 9F "Apr 24, 2021" .SH NAME esballoc, desballoc esballoca, desballoca \- allocate a message block using a caller-supplied buffer .SH SYNOPSIS .nf #include \fBmblk_t *\fR\fBesballoc\fR(\fBuchar_t *\fR\fIbase\fR, \fBsize_t\fR \fIsize\fR, \fBuint_t\fR \fIpri\fR, \fBfrtn_t *\fR\fIfr_rtnp\fR); .fi .LP .nf \fBmblk_t *\fR\fBdesballoc\fR(\fBuchar_t *\fR\fIbase\fR, \fBsize_t\fR \fIsize\fR, \fBuint_t\fR \fIpri\fR, \fBfrtn_t *\fR\fIfr_rtnp\fR); .fi .LP .nf #include .fi .LP .nf \fBmblk_t *\fR\fBesballoca\fR(\fBuchar_t *\fR\fIbase\fR, \fBsize_t\fR \fIsize\fR, \fBuint_t\fR \fIpri\fR, \fBfrtn_t *\fR\fIfr_rtnp\fR); .fi .LP .nf \fBmblk_t *\fR\fBdesballoca\fR(\fBuchar_t *\fR\fIbase\fR, \fBsize_t\fR \fIsize\fR, \fBuint_t\fR \fIpri\fR, \fBfrtn_t *\fR\fIfr_rtnp\fR); .fi .SH INTERFACE LEVEL \fBesballoc()\fR: Architecture independent level 1 (DDI/DKI) .sp .LP .nf \fBesballoca()\fR: Solaris DDI specific (Solaris DDI) \fBdesballoc()\fR: Solaris DDI specific (Solaris DDI) \fBdesballoca()\fR: Solaris DDI specific (Solaris DDI) .fi .SH PARAMETERS .ne 2 .na \fB\fIbase\fR\fR .ad .RS 11n Address of caller-supplied data buffer. .RE .sp .ne 2 .na \fB\fIsize\fR\fR .ad .RS 11n Number of bytes in data buffer. .RE .sp .ne 2 .na \fB\fIpri\fR\fR .ad .RS 11n Priority of the request (no longer used). .RE .sp .ne 2 .na \fB\fIfr_rtnp\fR\fR .ad .RS 11n Free routine data structure. .RE .SH DESCRIPTION The \fBesballoc()\fR, \fBesballoca()\fR, \fBdesballoc()\fR and \fBdesballoca()\fR functions operate identically to \fBallocb\fR(9F), except that the data buffer to associate with the message is specified by the caller. The allocated message will have both the \fBb_wptr\fR and \fBb_rptr\fR set to the supplied data buffer starting at \fIbase\fR. Only the buffer itself can be specified by the caller. The message block and data block header are allocated as if by \fBallocb\fR(9F). .sp .LP When \fBfreeb\fR(9F) is called to free the message, the driver's message-freeing routine, referenced through the \fBfree_rtn\fR(9S) structure, is called with appropriate arguments to free the data buffer. .sp .LP The \fBfree_rtn\fR(9S) structure includes the following members: .sp .in +2 .nf void (*free_func)(); /* caller's freeing routine */ caddr_t free_arg; /* argument to free_func() */ .fi .in -2 .sp .LP Instead of requiring a specific number of arguments, the \fBfree_arg\fR field is defined of type \fBcaddr_t\fR. This way, the driver can pass a pointer to a structure if more than one argument is needed. Note that the address of the \fBfree_rtn\fR(9S) structure passed to \fBesballoc()\fR is used when the returned mblk/dblk pair is freed, and must remain valid until then. .sp .LP If \fBesballoc()\fR or \fBesballoca()\fR was used, then \fBfree_func\fR will be called asynchronously at some point after the message is no longer referenced. If \fBdesballoc()\fR or \fBdesballoca()\fR was used, then \fBfree_func\fR will be called synchronously by the thread releasing the final reference. See \fBfreeb\fR(9F). .sp .LP The \fBfree_func\fR routine must not sleep, and must not access any dynamically allocated data structures that could be freed before or during its execution. In addition, because messages allocated with \fBdesballoc()\fR or \fBdesballoca()\fR are freed in the context of the caller, \fBfree_func\fR must not call another module's \fBput\fR procedure, or attempt to acquire a private module lock which might be held by another thread across a call to a STREAMS utility routine that could free a message block. Finally, \fBfree_func\fR routines specified using \fBdesballoc()\fR or \fBdesballoca()\fR may run in interrupt context and thus must only use synchronization primitives that include an interrupt priority returned from \fBddi_intr_get_pri\fR(9F) or \fBddi_intr_get_softint_pri\fR(9F). If any of these restrictions are not followed, the possibility of lock recursion or deadlock exists. .SH RETURN VALUES On success, a pointer to the newly allocated message block is returned. On failure, \fBNULL\fR is returned. .SH CONTEXT The \fBesballoc()\fR, \fBesballoca()\fR, \fBdesballoc()\fR and \fBdesballoca()\fR functions can be called from user, interrupt, or kernel context. .SH ATTRIBUTES See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: .sp .sp .TS box; c | c l | l . ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE _ Interface Stability Committed .TE .SH SEE ALSO \fBallocb\fR(9F), \fBddi_intr_get_pri\fR(9F), \fBddi_intr_get_softint_pri\fR(9F), \fBfreeb\fR(9F), \fBdatab\fR(9S), \fBfree_rtn\fR(9S) .sp .LP \fIWriting Device Drivers\fR .sp .LP \fISTREAMS Programming Guide\fR