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[cdi-devel] [RFC PATCH] mem.h: Handling memory areas
This adds a new CDI header cdi/mem.h which I consider a major step
before we can start with the IDC stuff. It unifies page-aligned memory
allocations for different types of DMA, allows the OS layer to back it
by shared memory (makes sense in a microkernel approach) and probably
some more nice things.
What cdi_mem_alloc/free are good for is obvious, I hope.
To explain the use of the other functions, consider the following.
Let's take a disk driver as an example. Instead of buffer/size its
write function will directly get a memory area from the OS. The OS might
already have allocated the memory physically contiguous, but it doesn't
need to do so. The driver calls cdi_mem_require_flags which copies the
data into a suited buffer - but if the OS already did the right thing,
it's a no-op.
cdi_mem_copy is for the other way round. Now the disk driver wants to
read something from its disk. It gets a memory area from the OS and uses
cdi_mem_require_flags to get something usable for DMA, which may or may
not involve a copy. When the disk has transferred all the data, the
driver uses cdi_mem_copy to make sure that the read data ends up in the
buffer it was passed - and again, if the buffer had already the right
flags this will be a no-op.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kevin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/cdi/mem.h | 160 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 160 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 include/cdi/mem.h
diff --git a/include/cdi/mem.h b/include/cdi/mem.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..852c258
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/cdi/mem.h
@@ -0,0 +1,160 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2007 Kevin Wolf
+ *
+ * This program is free software. It comes without any warranty, to
+ * the extent permitted by applicable law. You can redistribute it
+ * and/or modify it under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want
+ * To Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See
+ * http://sam.zoy.org/projects/COPYING.WTFPL for more details.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _CDI_MEM_H_
+#define _CDI_MEM_H_
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+#include "cdi.h"
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+/**
+ * \german
+ * Beschreibt Anforderungen an einen Speicherbereich
+ * \endgerman
+ * \english
+ * Describes requirements for a memory area
+ * \endenglish
+ */
+typedef enum {
+ /**
+ * \german
+ * Physisch zusammenhängenden Speicher anfordern
+ * \endgerman
+ * \english
+ * Request physically contiguous memory
+ * \endenglish
+ */
+ CDI_MEM_PHYS_CONTIGUOUS = 0x1,
+
+ /**
+ * \german
+ * Physischen Speicher < 16 MB anfordern
+ * \endgerman
+ * \english
+ * Request physical memory < 16 MB
+ * \endenglish
+ */
+ CDI_MEM_DMA_16M = 0x2,
+
+ /**
+ * \german
+ * Physischen Speicher < 4 GB anfordern
+ * \endgerman
+ * \english
+ * Request physical memory < 4 GB
+ * \endenglish
+ */
+ CDI_MEM_DMA_4G = 0x4,
+
+ /**
+ * \german
+ * Speicher muss nicht initialisiert werden (verhindert Kopie bei
+ * cdi_mem_require_flags)
+ * \endgerman
+ * \english
+ * Memory doesn't need to be initialised (avoids copy in
+ * cdi_mem_require_flags)
+ * \endenglish
+ */
+ CDI_MEM_NOINIT = 0x8,
+} cdi_mem_flags_t;
+
+struct cdi_mem_area {
+ size_t size;
+ void* vaddr;
+ uintptr_t paddr;
+
+ cdi_mem_osdep osdep;
+}
+
+/**
+ * \german
+ * Reserviert einen Speicherbereich. Die Funktion arbeitet nur mit ganzen
+ * Pages.
+ *
+ * @param size Grö�e des Speicherbereichs in Bytes
+ * @param flags Flags, die zusätzliche Anforderungen beschreiben
+ * \endgerman
+ * \english
+ * Allocates a memory area. The function only works with complete pages.
+ *
+ * @param size Size of the memory area in bytes
+ * @param flags Flags that describe additional requirements
+ * \endenglish
+ */
+struct cdi_mem_area* cdi_mem_alloc(size_t size, cdi_mem_flags_t flags);
+
+/**
+ * \german
+ * Gibt einen durch cdi_mem_alloc reservierten Speicherbereich frei
+ * \endgerman
+ * \english
+ * Frees a memory area that was previously allocated by cdi_mem_alloc
+ * \endenglish
+ */
+void cdi_mem_free(struct cdi_memory_area* p);
+
+/**
+ * \german
+ * Gibt einen Speicherbereich zurück, der dieselben Daten wie @a p beschreibt,
+ * aber mindestens die gegebenen Flags gesetzt hat.
+ *
+ * Diese Funktion kann denselben virtuellen und physischen Speicherbereich wie
+ * @p benutzen oder sogar @p selbst zurückzugeben, solange der gemeinsam
+ * benutzte Speicher erst dann freigegeben wird, wenn sowohl @a p als auch der
+ * Rückgabewert durch cdi_mem_free freigegeben worden sind.
+ *
+ * Ansonsten wird ein neuer Speicherbereich reserviert und (auÃ?er wenn das
+ * Flag CDI_MEM_NOINIT gesetzt ist) die Daten werden aus @a p in den neu
+ * reservierten Speicher kopiert.
+ * \endgerman
+ * \english
+ * Returns a memory area that describes the same data as @a p does, but for
+ * which at least the given flags are set.
+ *
+ * This function may use the same virtual and physical memory areas as used in
+ * @a p, or it may even return @a p itself. In this case it must ensure that
+ * the commonly used memory is only freed when both @a p and the return value
+ * of this function have been freed by cdi_mem_free.
+ *
+ * Otherwise, a new memory area is allocated and data is copied from @a p into
+ * the newly allocated memory (unless CDI_MEM_NOINIT is set).
+ * \endenglish
+ */
+struct cdi_mem_area* cdi_mem_require_flags(struct cdi_mem_area* p,
+ cdi_mem_flags_t flags);
+
+/**
+ * \german
+ * Kopiert die Daten von @a src nach @a dest. Beide Speicherbereiche müssen
+ * gleich groÃ? sein.
+ *
+ * @return 0 bei Erfolg, -1 sonst
+ * \endgerman
+ * \english
+ * Copies data from @a src to @a dest. Both memory areas must be of the same
+ * size.
+ *
+ *
+ * @return 0 on success, -1 otherwise
+ * \endenglish
+ */
+int cdi_mem_copy(struct cdi_mem_area* dest, struct cdi_mem_area* src);
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}; // extern "C"
+#endif
+
+#endif
+
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