Re: + inflate-refactor-inflate-malloc-code.patch added to -mm tree

[David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>]

Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:

> inflate: refactor inflate malloc code
> 
> Inflate requires some dynamic memory allocation very early in the boot
> process and this is provided with a set of four functions:
> malloc/free/gzip_mark/gzip_release.
> 
> The old inflate code used a mark/release strategy rather than
> implement free. This new version instead keeps a count on the number
> of outstanding allocations and when it hits zero, it resets the malloc
> arena.
> 
> This allows removing all the mark and release implementations and
> unifying all the malloc/free implementations.
> 
> The architecture-dependent code must define two addresses:
>  - free_mem_ptr, the address of the beginning of the area in which
>    allocations should be made
>  - free_mem_end_ptr, the address of the end of the area in which
>    allocations should be made. If set to 0, then no check is made on
>    the number of allocations, it just grows as much as needed
> 
> The architecture-dependent code can also provide an arch_decomp_wdog()
> function call. This function will be called several times during the
> decompression process, and allow to notify the watchdog that the
> system is still running. If an architecture provides such a call, then
> it must define ARCH_HAS_DECOMP_WDOG so that the generic inflate code
> calls arch_decomp_wdog().
> 
> Work initially done by Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>, updated to a
> recent version of the kernel by me.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>

Works on MN10300.

Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>