/* * * (C) COPYRIGHT 2014, 2017 ARM Limited. All rights reserved. * * This program is free software and is provided to you under the terms of the * GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software * Foundation, and any use by you of this program is subject to the terms * of such GNU licence. * * 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, you can access it online at * http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html. * * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 * */ #ifndef _KERNEL_UTF_MEM_H_ #define _KERNEL_UTF_MEM_H_ /* kutf_mem.h * Functions for management of memory pools in the kernel. * * This module implements a memory pool allocator, allowing a test * implementation to allocate linked allocations which can then be freed by a * single free which releases all of the resources held by the entire pool. * * Note that it is not possible to free single resources within the pool once * allocated. */ #include #include /** * struct kutf_mempool - the memory pool context management structure * @head: list head on which the allocations in this context are added to * @lock: mutex for concurrent allocation from multiple threads * */ struct kutf_mempool { struct list_head head; struct mutex lock; }; /** * kutf_mempool_init() - Initialize a memory pool. * @pool: Memory pool structure to initialize, provided by the user * * Return: zero on success */ int kutf_mempool_init(struct kutf_mempool *pool); /** * kutf_mempool_alloc() - Allocate memory from a pool * @pool: Memory pool to allocate from * @size: Size of memory wanted in number of bytes * * Return: Pointer to memory on success, NULL on failure. */ void *kutf_mempool_alloc(struct kutf_mempool *pool, size_t size); /** * kutf_mempool_destroy() - Destroy a memory pool, freeing all memory within it. * @pool: The memory pool to free */ void kutf_mempool_destroy(struct kutf_mempool *pool); #endif /* _KERNEL_UTF_MEM_H_ */