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Michael Brown
13e4b9ec49 [malloc] Avoid immediately clobbering reference count when freeing memory
Rearrange the fields in struct memory_block (without altering
MIN_MEMBLOCK_SIZE) so that the "count" field of a reference-counted
object is left intact when the memory containing the object is freed.
This allows for the possibility of detecting reference-counting errors
such as double-freeing.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2010-11-08 03:35:35 +00:00
Michael Brown
fc69ab94d9 [malloc] Use list_for_each_entry_safe() when we may delete a list entry
free_memblock() currently uses list_for_each_entry() to iterate over
the free list, and may delete an entry over which it iterates.  While
there is no way that the deleted list entry could be overwritten
before we reference it, this does rely upon list_del() leaving the
"next" pointer intact, which is not guaranteed.  Discovered while
tracking down a list-corruption bug (as a result of having modified
list_del() to sanitise the deleted list entry).

Fix by using list_for_each_entry_safe().

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2010-11-08 03:15:56 +00:00
Michael Brown
9dc51afa2c [malloc] Add cache discard mechanism
Add a facility allowing cached data to be discarded in order to
satisfy memory allocations that would otherwise fail.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2010-07-21 11:58:50 +01:00
Michael Brown
8406115834 [build] Rename gPXE to iPXE
Access to the gpxe.org and etherboot.org domains and associated
resources has been revoked by the registrant of the domain.  Work
around this problem by renaming project from gPXE to iPXE, and
updating URLs to match.

Also update README, LOG and COPYRIGHTS to remove obsolete information.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2010-04-19 23:43:39 +01:00
Michael Brown
c44a193d0d [legal] Add a selection of FILE_LICENCE declarations
Add FILE_LICENCE declarations to almost all files that make up the
various standard builds of gPXE.
2009-05-18 08:33:25 +01:00
Michael Brown
ee2df1d6d6 [ioapi] Remove old io.h file and switch all users over to <gpxe/io.h> 2008-10-12 01:06:27 +01:00
Holger Lubitz
7815474495 Revert "malloc attribute changes"
wasn't meant for my local "master" branch ;)
This reverts commit 373022108b.
2007-08-06 03:36:35 +02:00
Holger Lubitz
373022108b malloc attribute changes 2007-08-02 22:42:45 +02:00
Michael Brown
89349d7fad Separated out initialisation functions from startup/shutdown functions. 2007-07-03 23:09:56 +01:00
Michael Brown
058b200529 Renamed _calloc() to zalloc(), ready to be used as a standalone function. 2007-06-11 21:36:10 +01:00
Michael Brown
73b09ecba6 Use stdio.h instead of vsprintf.h 2007-01-19 01:13:12 +00:00
Michael Brown
6d4e37cf42 Move include/malloc.h to include/gpxe/malloc.h, since everything in there
is now gPXE-specific.  (The standard malloc() et al have been in stdlib.h
for a while).

Add free memory counter.
2007-01-18 20:11:04 +00:00
Michael Brown
35776f481c Don't always zero memory in malloc(). This saves around 2us on a
full-length PKB allocation.
2007-01-18 12:54:18 +00:00
Michael Brown
6c894c2a2e Fix typo 2007-01-12 01:37:38 +00:00
Michael Brown
c4677c7e73 Implemented realloc(), and changed the semantics of malloc(0) to allow
for realloc(0) being a valid way to free memory.
2006-11-24 16:51:18 +00:00
Michael Brown
88e38fa148 We don't actually have a stdio.h header file. Our printf() functions are
defined in vsprintf.h.  (This may change, since vsprintf.h is a
non-standard name, but for now it's the one to use.)

There should be no need to include vsprintf.h just for DBG() statements,
since include/compiler.h forces it in for a debug build anyway.
2006-09-27 10:58:14 +00:00
Marty Connor
1da4faa896 include stdio.h to suppress printf warning, general warnings fixups 2006-09-27 04:04:55 +00:00
Michael Brown
1dbafa8950 Tidied up debugging messages 2006-05-27 13:38:49 +00:00
Michael Brown
689218618f Fix typo 2006-05-16 14:42:43 +00:00
Michael Brown
51feeab445 Add an explicit failure debug message 2006-04-28 14:07:41 +00:00
Michael Brown
cfae86f6c8 Glenn managed to shrink .text by 5 more bytes. 2006-04-25 21:48:16 +00:00
Michael Brown
face774c4c Fixed erroneous comparison 2006-04-25 11:54:58 +00:00
Michael Brown
95f8a42930 Removed incorrect comment; malloc() is inefficient only when the
alignment and size are both powers of two, and there's no way to
specify an alignment through the malloc() interface anyway.
2006-04-25 10:41:49 +00:00
Michael Brown
4e92f29c9e Now passes trivial tests. free_memblock() needs neatening up. 2006-04-25 04:01:58 +00:00
Michael Brown
b601a7d355 Updated memory allocator to improve support for unaligned or partially
aligned blocks.

Moved header to include/malloc.h, since we now also provide the
POSIX-like malloc()/free() pair.

Not yet tested.
2006-04-25 03:30:46 +00:00
Michael Brown
b6b6a0b5fe First draft of a dynamic memory allocator 2006-04-24 15:21:18 +00:00