Re: Anybody interested in a kernel memory manager?

[Gregor Rebel <linux@mailbarrier.de>]

Hi again,

maybe the name is misleading, a better would could be kernel resource 
tracker.

--
Gregor
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently writing two modules related to XEN. Both modules need to
> acquire dynamic memory (via __get_free_pages() and kmalloc() ).
> In order to reuse some code, I wrote a third module which can provide
> simple memory-services to other modules:
> * Allocated pages and memories of each client-module gets tracked
> * When a module is about to exit, it can issue one function call to
> release all of its memories
> * Before first using the memory manager, each module has to obtain a
> unique owner id number by calling a registration function
> * by loading the memory manager with a debug argument, memory
> allocations automatically get logged into syslog facility
>
> I know, that currently each module keeps track of its memory allocations
> on its own.
>
> Is there a general interest to have such a memory manager in the kernel?
>
>
> -- 
> Gregor
>
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