uheap.c

Go to the documentation of this file.

/*
 * Copyright (C) 2025 Michael Brown <mbrown@fensystems.co.uk>.
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
 * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
 * License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
 * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 * General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
 * 02110-1301, USA.
 *
 * You can also choose to distribute this program under the terms of
 * the Unmodified Binary Distribution Licence (as given in the file
 * COPYING.UBDL), provided that you have satisfied its requirements.
 */
 
FILE_LICENCE ( GPL2_OR_LATER_OR_UBDL );
 
#include <ipxe/io.h>
#include <ipxe/memmap.h>
#include <ipxe/malloc.h>
#include <ipxe/umalloc.h>
 
/** @file
 *
 * External ("user") heap
 *
 * This file implements an external heap (for umalloc()) that grows
 * downwards from the top of the largest contiguous accessible block
 * in the system memory map.
 */
 
/**
 * Alignment for external heap allocations
 *
 * Historically, umalloc() has produced page-aligned allocations, and
 * the hidden region in the system memory map has been aligned to a
 * page boundary.  Preserve this behaviour, to avoid needing to
 * inspect and update large amounts of driver code, and also because
 * it keeps the resulting memory maps easy to read.
 */
#define UHEAP_ALIGN PAGE_SIZE
 
static struct heap uheap;
 
/** Minimum possible start of external heap */
physaddr_t uheap_limit;
 
/** Start of external heap */
physaddr_t uheap_start;
 
/** End of external heap */
physaddr_t uheap_end;
 
/** In-use memory region */
struct used_region uheap_used __used_region = {
        .name = "uheap",
};
 
/**
 * Adjust size of external heap in-use memory region
 *
 * @v delta             Size change
 */
static void uheap_resize ( ssize_t delta ) {
 
        /* Update in-use memory region */
        assert ( ( delta & ( UHEAP_ALIGN - 1 ) ) == 0 );
        uheap_start -= delta;
        assert ( uheap_limit <= uheap_start );
        assert ( uheap_start <= uheap_end );
        assert ( ( uheap_limit & ( UHEAP_ALIGN - 1 ) ) == 0 );
        assert ( ( uheap_start & ( UHEAP_ALIGN - 1 ) ) == 0 );
        assert ( ( uheap_end & ( UHEAP_ALIGN - 1 ) ) == 0 );
        memmap_use ( &uheap_used, uheap_start, ( uheap_end - uheap_start ) );
        DBGC ( &uheap, "UHEAP now at (%#08lx)...[%#08lx,%#08lx)\n",
               uheap_limit, uheap_start, uheap_end );
        memmap_dump_all ( 1 );
}
 
/**
 * Find an external heap region
 *
 */
static void uheap_find ( void ) {
        physaddr_t start;
        physaddr_t end;
        size_t before;
        size_t after;
        size_t strip;
        size_t size;
 
        /* Sanity checks */
        assert ( uheap_start == uheap_end );
        assert ( uheap_limit == uheap_end );
        assert ( uheap_used.size == 0 );
 
        /* Find the largest region within the system memory map */
        size = memmap_largest ( &start );
        end = ( start + size );
        DBGC ( &uheap, "UHEAP largest region is [%#08lx,%#08lx)\n",
               start, end );
 
        /* Align start and end addresses, and prevent overflow to zero */
        after = ( end ? ( end & ( UHEAP_ALIGN - 1 ) ) : UHEAP_ALIGN );
        before = ( ( -start ) & ( UHEAP_ALIGN - 1 ) );
        strip = ( before + after );
        if ( strip > size )
                return;
        start += before;
        end -= after;
        size -= strip;
        assert ( ( end - start ) == size );
 
        /* Record region */
        uheap_limit = start;
        uheap_start = end;
        uheap_end = end;
        uheap_resize ( 0 );
}
 
/**
 * Attempt to grow external heap
 *
 * @v size              Failed allocation size
 * @ret grown           Heap has grown: retry allocations
 */
static unsigned int uheap_grow ( size_t size ) {
        void *new;
 
        /* Initialise heap, if it does not yet exist */
        if ( uheap_limit == uheap_end )
                uheap_find();
 
        /* Fail if insufficient space remains */
        if ( size > ( uheap_start - uheap_limit ) )
                return 0;
 
        /* Grow heap */
        new = ( phys_to_virt ( uheap_start ) - size );
        heap_populate ( &uheap, new, size );
        uheap_resize ( size );
 
        return 1;
}
 
/**
 * Allow external heap to shrink
 *
 * @v ptr               Start of free block
 * @v size              Size of free block
 * @ret shrunk          Heap has shrunk: discard block
 */
static unsigned int uheap_shrink ( void *ptr, size_t size ) {
 
        /* Do nothing unless this is the lowest block in the heap */
        if ( virt_to_phys ( ptr ) != uheap_start )
                return 0;
 
        /* Shrink heap */
        uheap_resize ( -size );
 
        return 1;
}
 
/** The external heap */
static struct heap uheap = {
        .blocks = LIST_HEAD_INIT ( uheap.blocks ),
        .align = UHEAP_ALIGN,
        .ptr_align = UHEAP_ALIGN,
        .grow = uheap_grow,
        .shrink = uheap_shrink,
};
 
/**
 * Reallocate external memory
 *
 * @v old_ptr           Memory previously allocated by umalloc(), or NULL
 * @v new_size          Requested size
 * @ret new_ptr         Allocated memory, or NULL
 *
 * Calling urealloc() with a new size of zero is a valid way to free a
 * memory block.
 */
static void * uheap_realloc ( void *old_ptr, size_t new_size ) {
 
        return heap_realloc ( &uheap, old_ptr, new_size );
}
 
PROVIDE_UMALLOC ( uheap, urealloc, uheap_realloc );