From b601a7d355a4c24563f4f2db40ba52ae183ce493 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Brown
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 03:30:46 +0000
Subject: Updated memory allocator to improve support for unaligned or
 partially aligned blocks.

Moved header to include/malloc.h, since we now also provide the
POSIX-like malloc()/free() pair.

Not yet tested.
---
 src/include/malloc.h | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 66 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/include/malloc.h

(limited to 'src/include/malloc.h')

diff --git a/src/include/malloc.h b/src/include/malloc.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3442baf7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/include/malloc.h
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+#ifndef _MALLOC_H
+#define _MALLOC_H
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+/** @file
+ *
+ * Dynamic memory allocation
+ *
+ */
+
+extern void * alloc_memblock ( size_t size, size_t align );
+extern void free_memblock ( void *ptr, size_t size );
+extern void * malloc ( size_t size );
+extern void free ( void *ptr );
+extern void mpopulate ( void *start, size_t len );
+extern void mdumpfree ( void );
+
+/**
+ * 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_dma ( size_t size, size_t phys_align ) {
+	return alloc_memblock ( size, phys_align );
+}
+
+/**
+ * Free memory allocated with malloc_dma()
+ *
+ * @v ptr		Memory allocated by malloc_dma(), or NULL
+ * @v size		Size of memory, as passed to malloc_dma()
+ *
+ * Memory allocated with malloc_dma() can only be freed with
+ * free_dma(); it cannot be freed with the standard free().
+ *
+ * If @c ptr is NULL, no action is taken.
+ */
+static inline void free_dma ( void *ptr, size_t size ) {
+	free_memblock ( ptr, size );
+}
+
+/**
+ * Allocate cleared memory
+ *
+ * @v nmemb		Number of members
+ * @v size		Size of each member
+ * @ret ptr		Allocated memory
+ *
+ * Allocate memory as per malloc(), and zero it.
+ *
+ * Note that malloc() and calloc() are identical, in the interests of
+ * reducing code size.  Callers should not, however, rely on malloc()
+ * clearing memory, since this behaviour may change in future.
+ */
+static inline void * calloc ( size_t nmemb, size_t size ) {
+	return malloc ( nmemb * size );
+}
+
+#endif /* _MALLOC_H */
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