From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [U-Boot, v4, 4/7] efi_loader: Track size of pool allocations to allow freeing
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 16:34:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161013143450.35160.87286@achrid.arch.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a9c2dfd819b44ebeb89bf46cec7dcd68@rwthex-w2-b.rwth-ad.de>
> We need a functional free_pool implementation, as otherwise each
> allocate_pool causes growth of the memory descriptor table.
>
> Different to free_pages, free_pool does not provide the size for the
> to be freed allocation, thus we have to track the size ourselves.
>
> As the only EFI requirement for pool allocation is an alignment of
> 8 bytes, we can keep allocating a range using the page allocator,
> reserve the first 8 bytes for our bookkeeping and hand out the
> remainder to the caller. This saves us from having to use any
> independent data structures for tracking.
>
> To simplify the conversion between pool allocations and the corresponding
> page allocation, we create an auxiliary struct efi_pool_allocation.
>
> Given the allocation size free_pool size can handoff freeing the page
> range, which was indirectly allocated by a call to allocate_pool,
> to free_pages.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Br?ns <stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de>
> Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Thanks, applied to
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2016-10-09 20:17 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 4/7] efi_loader: Track size of pool allocations to allow freeing Stefan Brüns
2016-10-10 11:39 ` Alexander Graf
2016-10-13 14:34 ` Alexander Graf [this message]
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