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.Dd October 22, 2006
.Dt VMEM 9
.Os
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.Sh NAME
.Nm vmem
.Nd virtual memory allocator
.\" ------------------------------------------------------------
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
is a general purpose resource allocator.
Despite its name, it can be used for arbitrary resources
other than virtual memory.
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.Sh CODE REFERENCES
This section describes places within the
.Nx
source tree where actual code implementing the
.Nm
subsystem can be found.
All pathnames are relative to
.Pa /usr/src .
.Pp
The
.Nm
subsystem is implemented within the file
.Pa sys/kern/subr_vmem.c .
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.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr intro 9 ,
.Xr vmem_alloc 9 ,
.Xr vmem_create 9 ,
.Xr vmem_destroy 9 ,
.Xr vmem_free 9 ,
.Xr vmem_xalloc 9 ,
.Xr vmem_xfree 9
.Rs
.%A Jeff Bonwick
.%A Jonathan Adams
.%T "Magazines and Vmem: Extending the Slab Allocator to Many CPUs and Arbitrary Resources"
.%J "2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference"
.%D 2001
.Re
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.Sh AUTHORS
This implementation of
.Nm
was written by
.An YAMAMOTO Takashi .