[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 06/41] eal: make malloc_elem_join_adjacent_free public

Anatoly Burakov anatoly.burakov at intel.com
Wed Mar 7 17:56:34 CET 2018


We need this function to join newly allocated segments with the heap.

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_elem.c | 6 +++---
 lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_elem.h | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_elem.c b/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_elem.c
index e02ed88..2291ee1 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_elem.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_elem.c
@@ -325,8 +325,8 @@ join_elem(struct malloc_elem *elem1, struct malloc_elem *elem2)
 	elem1->next = next;
 }
 
-static struct malloc_elem *
-elem_join_adjacent_free(struct malloc_elem *elem)
+struct malloc_elem *
+malloc_elem_join_adjacent_free(struct malloc_elem *elem)
 {
 	/*
 	 * check if next element exists, is adjacent and is free, if so join
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ malloc_elem_free(struct malloc_elem *elem)
 	ptr = RTE_PTR_ADD(elem, sizeof(*elem));
 	data_len = elem->size - MALLOC_ELEM_OVERHEAD;
 
-	elem = elem_join_adjacent_free(elem);
+	elem = malloc_elem_join_adjacent_free(elem);
 
 	malloc_elem_free_list_insert(elem);
 
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_elem.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_elem.h
index 40e8eb5..99921d2 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_elem.h
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/malloc_elem.h
@@ -141,6 +141,9 @@ malloc_elem_alloc(struct malloc_elem *elem, size_t size,
 int
 malloc_elem_free(struct malloc_elem *elem);
 
+struct malloc_elem *
+malloc_elem_join_adjacent_free(struct malloc_elem *elem);
+
 /*
  * attempt to resize a malloc_elem by expanding into any free space
  * immediately after it in memory.
-- 
2.7.4


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