// Physical memory allocator, intended to allocate // memory for user processes. Allocates in 4096-byte "pages". // Free list is kept sorted and combines adjacent pages into // long runs, to make it easier to allocate big segments. // One reason the page size is 4k is that the x86 segment size // granularity is 4k. #include "types.h" #include "defs.h" #include "param.h" #include "spinlock.h" struct run { struct run *next; int len; // bytes }; struct { struct spinlock lock; struct run *freelist; } kmem; // Initialize free list of physical pages. // This code cheats by just considering one megabyte of // pages after _end. Real systems would determine the // amount of memory available in the system and use it all. void kinit(void) { extern int end; uint mem; char *start; initlock(&kmem.lock, "kmem"); start = (char*) &end; start = (char*) (((uint)start + PAGE) & ~(PAGE-1)); mem = 256; // assume computer has 256 pages of RAM cprintf("mem = %d\n", mem * PAGE); kfree(start, mem * PAGE); } // Free the len bytes of memory pointed at by v, // which normally should have been returned by a // call to kalloc(len). (The exception is when // initializing the allocator; see kinit above.) void kfree(char *v, int len) { struct run *r, *rend, **rp, *p, *pend; if(len <= 0 || len % PAGE) panic("kfree"); // Fill with junk to catch dangling refs. memset(v, 1, len); acquire(&kmem.lock); p = (struct run*)v; pend = (struct run*)(v + len); for(rp=&kmem.freelist; (r=*rp) != 0 && r <= pend; rp=&r->next){ rend = (struct run*)((char*)r + r->len); if(r <= p && p < rend) panic("freeing free page"); if(pend == r){ // p next to r: replace r with p p->len = len + r->len; p->next = r->next; *rp = p; goto out; } if(rend == p){ // r next to p: replace p with r r->len += len; if(r->next && r->next == pend){ // r now next to r->next? r->len += r->next->len; r->next = r->next->next; } goto out; } } // Insert p before r in list. p->len = len; p->next = r; *rp = p; out: release(&kmem.lock); } // Allocate n bytes of physical memory. // Returns a kernel-segment pointer. // Returns 0 if the memory cannot be allocated. char* kalloc(int n) { char *p; struct run *r, **rp; if(n % PAGE || n <= 0) panic("kalloc"); acquire(&kmem.lock); for(rp=&kmem.freelist; (r=*rp) != 0; rp=&r->next){ if(r->len == n){ *rp = r->next; release(&kmem.lock); return (char*)r; } if(r->len > n){ r->len -= n; p = (char*)r + r->len; release(&kmem.lock); return p; } } release(&kmem.lock); cprintf("kalloc: out of memory\n"); return 0; }