inflate: refactor inflate malloc code
authorThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:45:44 +0000 (01:45 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:53:28 +0000 (10:53 -0700)
commit2d6ffcca623a9a16df6cdfbe8250b7a5904a5f5e
tree70d30cb6516608e9a8a1dce60c59f3a5ff21b305
parentba92a43dbaee339cf5915ef766d3d3ffbaaf103c
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, updated to a recent version of the
kernel and improved by me.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <mikael.starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
13 files changed:
arch/alpha/boot/misc.c
arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.c
arch/cris/arch-v10/boot/compressed/misc.c
arch/cris/arch-v32/boot/compressed/misc.c
arch/h8300/boot/compressed/misc.c
arch/m32r/boot/compressed/misc.c
arch/mn10300/boot/compressed/misc.c
arch/sh/boot/compressed/misc_32.c
arch/sh/boot/compressed/misc_64.c
arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
init/do_mounts_rd.c
init/initramfs.c
lib/inflate.c