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authorMichael Brown2012-08-29 16:35:46 +0200
committerMichael Brown2012-08-31 22:22:45 +0200
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[malloc] Allow allocation of memory with a specified alignment offset
Allow for allocation of memory blocks having a specified offset from a specified physical alignment, such as being 12 bytes before a 2kB boundary. Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/include/ipxe/malloc.h')
-rw-r--r--src/include/ipxe/malloc.h25
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/include/ipxe/malloc.h b/src/include/ipxe/malloc.h
index d41b0562..bbd6cb89 100644
--- a/src/include/ipxe/malloc.h
+++ b/src/include/ipxe/malloc.h
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ FILE_LICENCE ( GPL2_OR_LATER );
extern size_t freemem;
-extern void * __malloc alloc_memblock ( size_t size, size_t align );
+extern void * __malloc alloc_memblock ( size_t size, size_t align,
+ size_t offset );
extern void free_memblock ( void *ptr, size_t size );
extern void mpopulate ( void *start, size_t len );
extern void mdumpfree ( void );
@@ -33,20 +34,38 @@ extern void mdumpfree ( void );
*
* @v size Requested size
* @v align Physical alignment
+ * @v offset Offset from physical alignment
* @ret ptr Memory, or NULL
*
* Allocates physically-aligned memory for DMA.
*
* @c align must be a power of two. @c size may not be zero.
*/
-static inline void * __malloc malloc_dma ( size_t size, size_t phys_align ) {
- void * ptr = alloc_memblock ( size, phys_align );
+static inline void * __malloc malloc_dma_offset ( size_t size,
+ size_t phys_align,
+ size_t offset ) {
+ void * ptr = alloc_memblock ( size, phys_align, offset );
if ( ptr && size )
VALGRIND_MALLOCLIKE_BLOCK ( ptr, size, 0, 0 );
return ptr;
}
/**
+ * Allocate memory for DMA
+ *
+ * @v size Requested size
+ * @v align Physical alignment
+ * @ret ptr Memory, or NULL
+ *
+ * Allocates physically-aligned memory for DMA.
+ *
+ * @c align must be a power of two. @c size may not be zero.
+ */
+static inline void * __malloc malloc_dma ( size_t size, size_t phys_align ) {
+ return malloc_dma_offset ( size, phys_align, 0 );
+}
+
+/**
* Free memory allocated with malloc_dma()
*
* @v ptr Memory allocated by malloc_dma(), or NULL