mem.c File Reference

Macros
#define	MIN_SIZE   12

Functions
u8_t *	mem_barrelfish_alloc (uint8_t buf_index, uint32_t size)
void	mem_init (void)
void	mem_free (void *rmem)
void *	mem_realloc (void *rmem, mem_size_t newsize)
void *	mem_malloc (mem_size_t size)
void *	mem_calloc (mem_size_t count, mem_size_t size)

Detailed Description

Dynamic memory manager

This is a lightweight replacement for the standard C library malloc().

If you want to use the standard C library malloc() instead, define MEM_LIBC_MALLOC to 1 in your lwipopts.h

To let mem_malloc() use pools (prevents fragmentation and is much faster than a heap but might waste some memory), define MEM_USE_POOLS to 1, define MEM_USE_CUSTOM_POOLS to 1 and create a file "lwippools.h" that includes a list of pools like this (more pools can be added between _START and _END):

Define three pools with sizes 256, 512, and 1512 bytes LWIP_MALLOC_MEMPOOL_START LWIP_MALLOC_MEMPOOL(20, 256) LWIP_MALLOC_MEMPOOL(10, 512) LWIP_MALLOC_MEMPOOL(5, 1512) LWIP_MALLOC_MEMPOOL_END

Macro Definition Documentation

#define MIN_SIZE   12

All allocated blocks will be MIN_SIZE bytes big, at least! MIN_SIZE can be overridden to suit your needs. Smaller values save space, larger values could prevent too small blocks to fragment the RAM too much.

Function Documentation

u8_t* mem_barrelfish_alloc	(	uint8_t	binding_index,
		uint32_t	size
	)

the heap. we need one struct mem at the end and some room for alignment

Used to allocate memory for RX/TX buffers in lwip. At the moment it must * only be called once for each binding (2 total).

void* mem_calloc	(	mem_size_t	count,
		mem_size_t	size
	)

Contiguously allocates enough space for count objects that are size bytes of memory each and returns a pointer to the allocated memory.

The allocated memory is filled with bytes of value zero.

Parameters

count	number of objects to allocate
size	size of the objects to allocate

Returns

pointer to allocated memory / NULL pointer if there is an error

void mem_free

(

void *

rmem

)

Put a struct mem back on the heap

Parameters

rmem	is the data portion of a struct mem as returned by a previous call to mem_malloc()

void mem_init

(

void

)

Zero the heap and initialize start, end and lowest-free

void* mem_malloc

(

mem_size_t

size

)

Adam's mem_malloc() plus solution for bug #17922 Allocate a block of memory with a minimum of 'size' bytes.

Parameters

size	is the minimum size of the requested block in bytes.

Returns

pointer to allocated memory or NULL if no free memory was found.

Note that the returned value will always be aligned (as defined by MEM_ALIGNMENT).

void* mem_realloc	(	void *	rmem,
		mem_size_t	newsize
	)

In contrast to its name, mem_realloc can only shrink memory, not expand it. Since the only use (for now) is in pbuf_realloc (which also can only shrink), this shouldn't be a problem!

Parameters

rmem	pointer to memory allocated by mem_malloc the is to be shrinked
newsize	required size after shrinking (needs to be smaller than or equal to the previous size)

Returns

for compatibility reasons: is always == rmem, at the moment or NULL if newsize is > old size, in which case rmem is NOT touched or freed!