void *mdb_alloc(size_t size, uint_t flags); void *mdb_zalloc(size_t size, uint_t flags); void mdb_free(void *buf, size_t size);
mdb_alloc() allocates size bytes of debugger memory and returns a pointer to the allocated memory. The allocated memory is at least double-word aligned, so it can hold any C data structure. No greater alignment can be assumed. The flags parameter should be the bitwise OR of one or more of the following values:
If sufficient memory to fulfill the request is not immediately available, return NULL to indicate failure. The caller must check for NULL and handle this case appropriately.
If sufficient memory to fulfill the request is not immediately available, sleep until such time as the request can be fulfilled. As a result, UM_SLEEP allocations are guaranteed to succeed. The caller need not check for a NULL return value.
Garbage-collect allocation automatically at the end of this debugger command. The caller should not subsequently call mdb_free() on this block, as the debugger will take care of deallocation automatically. All memory allocation from within a dcmd must use UM_GC so that if the dcmd is interrupted by the user, the debugger can garbage-collect the memory.
mdb_zalloc() is like mdb_alloc(), but the allocated memory is filled with zeroes before returning it to the caller. No guarantees are made about the initial contents of memory returned by mdb_alloc(). mdb_free() is used to free previously allocated memory (unless it was allocated UM_GC). The buffer address and size must exactly match the original allocation. It is not legal to free only a portion of an allocation with mdb_free(). It is not legal to free an allocation more than once. An allocation of zero bytes always returns NULL; freeing a NULL pointer with size zero always succeeds.