coreboot: add memory pool infrastructure

The memory pool infrastructure provides an allocator with
very simple free()ing semantics: only the most recent allocation
can be freed from the pool. However, it can be reset and when
not used any longer providing the entire region for future
allocations.

Change-Id: I5ae9ab35bb769d78bbc2866c5ae3b5ce2cdce5fa
Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/9129
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer <stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org>

1 files changed, 73 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/include/mem_pool.h b/src/include/mem_pool.h
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+/*
+ * This file is part of the coreboot project.
+ *
+ * Copyright 2015 Google Inc.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _MEM_POOL_H_
+#define _MEM_POOL_H_
+
+#include <stddef.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+/*
+ * The memory pool allows one to allocate memory from a fixed size buffer
+ * that also allows freeing semantics for reuse. However, the current
+ * limitation is that the most recent allocation is the only one that
+ * can be freed. If one tries to free any allocation that isn't the
+ * most recently allocated it will result in a leak within the memory pool.
+ *
+ * The memory returned by allocations are at least 8 byte aligned. Note
+ * that this requires the backing buffer to start on at least an 8 byte
+ * alignment.
+ */
+
+struct mem_pool {
+	uint8_t *buf;
+	size_t size;
+	uint8_t *last_alloc;
+	size_t free_offset;
+};
+
+#define MEM_POOL_INIT(buf_, size_)	\
+	{				\
+		.buf = (buf_),		\
+		.size = (size_),	\
+		.last_alloc = NULL,	\
+		.free_offset = 0,	\
+	}
+
+static inline void mem_pool_reset(struct mem_pool *mp)
+{
+	mp->last_alloc = NULL;
+	mp->free_offset = 0;
+}
+
+/* Initialize a memory pool. */
+static inline void mem_pool_init(struct mem_pool *mp, void *buf, size_t sz)
+{
+	mp->buf = buf;
+	mp->size = sz;
+	mem_pool_reset(mp);
+}
+
+/* Allocate requested size from the memory pool. NULL returned on error. */
+void *mem_pool_alloc(struct mem_pool *mp, size_t sz);
+
+/* Free allocation from memory pool. */
+void mem_pool_free(struct mem_pool *mp, void *alloc);
+
+#endif /* _MEM_POOL_H_ */