Large allocations from a slab pool result in free page blocks being fragmented,
eventually leading to a situation when no further allocation larger than a page
size are possible from the pool. While this isn't a problem for nginx itself,
it is known to be bad for various 3rd party modules. Fix is to merge adjacent
blocks of free pages in the ngx_slab_free_pages() function.
Prodded by Wandenberg Peixoto and Yichun Zhang.
The flag allows to suppress "ngx_slab_alloc() failed: no memory" messages
from a slab allocator, e.g., if an LRU expiration is used by a consumer
and allocation failures aren't fatal.
The flag is now used in the SSL session cache code, and in the limit_req
module.
Casts between pointers and integers produce warnings on size mismatch. To
silence them, cast to (u)intptr_t should be used. Prevoiusly, casts to
ngx_(u)int_t were used in some cases, and several ngx_int_t expressions had
no casts.
As of now it's mostly style as ngx_int_t is defined as intptr_t.
