Currently, destroying external heap chunk and its memseg list is
part of one process. When we will gain the ability to unregister
external memory from DPDK that doesn't have any heap structures
associated with it, we need to be able to find and destroy
memseg lists as well as heap data separately.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Acked-by: Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>
Currently, creating external malloc heap involves also creating
a memseg list backing that malloc heap. We need to have them as
separate functions, to allow creating memseg lists without
creating a malloc heap.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Acked-by: Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>
SPDK uses the rte_mem_event_callback_register API to
create RDMA memory regions (MRs) for newly allocated regions
of memory. This is used in both the SPDK NVMe-oF target
and the NVMe-oF host driver.
DPDK creates internal malloc_elem structures for these
allocated regions. As users malloc and free memory, DPDK
will sometimes merge malloc_elems that originated from
different allocations that were notified through the
registered mem_event callback routine. This results
in subsequent allocations that can span across multiple
RDMA MRs. This requires SPDK to check each DPDK buffer to
see if it crosses an MR boundary, and if so, would have to
add considerable logic and complexity to describe that
buffer before it can be accessed by the RNIC. It is somewhat
analagous to rte_malloc returning a buffer that is not
IOVA-contiguous.
As a malloc_elem gets split and some of these elements
get freed, it can also result in DPDK sending an
RTE_MEM_EVENT_FREE notification for a subset of the
original RTE_MEM_EVENT_ALLOC notification. This is also
problematic for RDMA memory regions, since unregistering
the memory region is all-or-nothing. It is not possible
to unregister part of a memory region.
To support these types of applications, this patch adds
a new --match-allocations EAL init flag. When this
flag is specified, malloc elements from different
hugepage allocations will never be merged. Memory will
also only be freed back to the system (with the requisite
memory event callback) exactly as it was originally
allocated.
Since part of this patch is extending the size of struct
malloc_elem, we also fix up the malloc autotests so they
do not assume its size exactly fits in one cacheline.
Signed-off-by: Jim Harris <james.r.harris@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
During memory initialization calling rte_mem_check_dma_mask
leads to a deadlock because memory_hotplug_lock is locked by a
writer, the current code in execution, and rte_memseg_walk
tries to lock as a reader.
This patch adds a thread_unsafe version which will call the final
function specifying the memory_hotplug_lock does not need to be
acquired. The patch also modified rte_mem_check_dma_mask as a
intermediate step which will call the final function as before,
implying memory_hotplug_lock will be acquired.
PMDs should always use the version acquiring the lock with the
thread_unsafe one being just for internal EAL memory code.
Fixes: 223b7f1d5ef6 ("mem: add function for checking memseg IOVA")
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.lucero@netronome.com>
Tested-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
If DMA mask checks shows mapped memory out of the supported range
specified by the DMA mask, nothing can be done but return an error
an report the error. This can imply the app not being executed at
all or precluding dynamic memory allocation once the app is running.
In any case, we can advice the user to force IOVA as PA if currently
IOVA being VA and user being root.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.lucero@netronome.com>
Tested-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Current name rte_eal_check_dma_mask does not follow the naming
used in the rest of the file.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.lucero@netronome.com>
Tested-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
The param needs to be the maskbits and not the mask.
Fixes: 223b7f1d5ef6 ("mem: add function for checking memseg IOVA")
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.lucero@netronome.com>
Tested-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
A device can suffer addressing limitations. This function checks
memsegs have iovas within the supported range based on dma mask.
PMDs should use this function during initialization if device
suffers addressing limitations, returning an error if this function
returns memsegs out of range.
Another usage is for emulated IOMMU hardware with addressing
limitations.
It is necessary to save the most restricted dma mask for checking out
memory allocated dynamically after initialization.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Lucero <alejandro.lucero@netronome.com>
Reviewed-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
RTE_MEMZONE_SIZE_HINT_ONLY wasn't checked in any way,
causing size hints to be parsed as hard requirements.
This resulted in some allocations being failed prematurely.
Fixes: 68b6092bd3c7 ("malloc: allow reserving biggest element")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Darek Stojaczyk <dariusz.stojaczyk@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
When adding or removing external memory from the memory map, there
may be actions that need to be taken on account of this memory (e.g.
DMA mapping). Add support for triggering callbacks when adding,
removing, attaching or detaching external memory.
Some memory event callback handlers will need additional logic to
handle external memory regions. For example, virtio callback has to
completely ignore externally allocated memory, because there is no
way to find file descriptors backing the memory address in a
generic fashion. All other callbacks have also been adjusted to
handle RTE_BAD_IOVA as IOVA address, as this is one of the expected
use cases for external memory support.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Add an API to remove memory from specified heaps. This will first
check if all elements within the region are free, and that the
region is the original region that was added to the heap (by
comparing its length to length of memory addressed by the
underlying memseg list).
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Add an API to add externally allocated memory to malloc heap. The
memory will be stored in memseg lists like regular DPDK memory.
Multiple segments are allowed within a heap. If IOVA table is
not provided, IOVA addresses are filled in with RTE_BAD_IOVA.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Add API to allow creating new malloc heaps. They will be created
with socket ID's going above RTE_MAX_NUMA_NODES, to avoid clashing
with internal heaps.
This breaks the ABI, so document the change.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
We will need to refer to external heaps in some way. While we use
heap ID's internally, for external API use it has to be something
more user-friendly. So, we will be using a string to uniquely
identify a heap.
This breaks the ABI, so document the change.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
We will be assigning "invalid" socket ID's to external heap, and
malloc will now be able to verify if a supplied socket ID is in
fact a valid one, rendering parameter checks for sockets
obsolete.
This changes the semantics of what we understand by "socket ID",
so document the change in the release notes.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Switch over all parts of EAL to use heap ID instead of NUMA node
ID to identify heaps. Heap ID for DPDK-internal heaps is NUMA
node's index within the detected NUMA node list. Heap ID for
external heaps will be order of their creation.
This breaks the ABI, so document the changes.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
When we allocate and use DPDK memory, we need to be able to
differentiate between DPDK hugepage segments and segments that
were made part of DPDK but are externally allocated. Add such
a property to memseg lists.
This breaks the ABI, so document the change in release notes.
This also breaks a few internal assumptions about memory
contiguousness, so adjust malloc code in a few places.
All current calls for memseg walk functions were adjusted to
ignore external segments where it made sense.
Mempools is a special case, because we may be asked to allocate
a mempool on a specific socket, and we need to ignore all page
sizes on other heaps or other sockets. Previously, this
assumption of knowing all page sizes was not a problem, but it
will be now, so we have to match socket ID with page size when
calculating minimum page size for a mempool.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Acked-by: Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>
We need to do the NULL pointer check first after malloc().
Fixes: 07dcbfe0101f ("malloc: support multiprocess memory hotplug")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>
Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Add an internal-only function to allocate biggest element from
the heap. Nominally, it supports SOCKET_ID_ANY as its socket
argument, but it's essentially useless because other sockets
will only be allocated from if the entire heap on current or
specified socket is busy.
Still, asking to reserve a biggest element will allow fixing
race condition in memzone reserve that has been there for a
long time.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Acked-by: Remy Horton <remy.horton@intel.com>
Currently, when deallocating pages, malloc will fixup other
elements' headers if there is not enough space to store a full
element in leftover space. This leads to race conditions because
there are some functions that check for pad size with an unlocked
heap, expecting pad size to be constant.
Fix it by being more conservative and only freeing pages when
there is enough space before and after the page to store a free
element.
Fixes: 1403f87d4fb8 ("malloc: enable memory hotplug support")
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
When heap initializes, we need to add already allocated segments
onto the heap. However, in doing that, we never increased total
heap size. Fix it by adding segment length to total heap length
when initializing the heap.
Fixes: 66cc45e293ed ("mem: replace memseg with memseg lists")
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Technically, while the pointer would've been invalid if msl_idx
were invalid, we wouldn't have actually attempted to access the
pointer until verifying the index. Fix it by moving array access
to after we've verified validity of the index.
Coverity issue: 272574
Fixes: 66cc45e293ed ("mem: replace memseg with memseg lists")
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Acked-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
We lock the hotplug during init, but do not unlock it if we couldn't
register multiprocess callbacks. Add the missing unlock.
Fixes: 07dcbfe0101f ("malloc: support multiprocess memory hotplug")
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
It is common sense to expect for DPDK process to not deallocate any
pages that were preallocated by "-m" or "--socket-mem" flags - yet,
currently, DPDK memory subsystem will do exactly that once it finds
that the pages are unused.
Fix this by marking pages as unfreebale, and preventing malloc from
ever trying to free them.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Tested-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com>
Tested-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Tested-by: Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gowrishankar.m@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Before allocating a new page, give a chance to the user to
allow or deny allocation via callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Tested-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com>
Tested-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Tested-by: Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gowrishankar.m@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Callbacks will be triggered just after allocation and just
before deallocation, to ensure that memory address space
referenced in the callback is always valid by the time
callback is called.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Tested-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com>
Tested-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Tested-by: Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gowrishankar.m@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This enables multiprocess synchronization for memory hotplug
requests at runtime (as opposed to initialization).
Basic workflow is the following. Primary process always does initial
mapping and unmapping, and secondary processes always follow primary
page map. Only one allocation request can be active at any one time.
When primary allocates memory, it ensures that all other processes
have allocated the same set of hugepages successfully, otherwise
any allocations made are being rolled back, and heap is freed back.
Heap is locked throughout the process, and there is also a global
memory hotplug lock, so no race conditions can happen.
When primary frees memory, it frees the heap, deallocates affected
pages, and notifies other processes of deallocations. Since heap is
freed from that memory chunk, the area basically becomes invisible
to other processes even if they happen to fail to unmap that
specific set of pages, so it's completely safe to ignore results of
sync requests.
When secondary allocates memory, it does not do so by itself.
Instead, it sends a request to primary process to try and allocate
pages of specified size and on specified socket, such that a
specified heap allocation request could complete. Primary process
then sends all secondaries (including the requestor) a separate
notification of allocated pages, and expects all secondary
processes to report success before considering pages as "allocated".
Only after primary process ensures that all memory has been
successfully allocated in all secondary process, it will respond
positively to the initial request, and let secondary proceed with
the allocation. Since the heap now has memory that can satisfy
allocation request, and it was locked all this time (so no other
allocations could take place), secondary process will be able to
allocate memory from the heap.
When secondary frees memory, it hides pages to be deallocated from
the heap. Then, it sends a deallocation request to primary process,
so that it deallocates pages itself, and then sends a separate sync
request to all other processes (including the requestor) to unmap
the same pages. This way, even if secondary fails to notify other
processes of this deallocation, that memory will become invisible
to other processes, and will not be allocated from again.
So, to summarize: address space will only become part of the heap
if primary process can ensure that all other processes have
allocated this memory successfully. If anything goes wrong, the
worst thing that could happen is that a page will "leak" and will
not be available to neither DPDK nor the system, as some process
will still hold onto it. It's not an actual leak, as we can account
for the page - it's just that none of the processes will be able
to use this page for anything useful, until it gets allocated from
by the primary.
Due to underlying DPDK IPC implementation being single-threaded,
some asynchronous magic had to be done, as we need to complete
several requests before we can definitively allow secondary process
to use allocated memory (namely, it has to be present in all other
secondary processes before it can be used). Additionally, only
one allocation request is allowed to be submitted at once.
Memory allocation requests are only allowed when there are no
secondary processes currently initializing. To enforce that,
a shared rwlock is used, that is set to read lock on init (so that
several secondaries could initialize concurrently), and write lock
on making allocation requests (so that either secondary init will
have to wait, or allocation request will have to wait until all
processes have initialized).
Any other function that wishes to iterate over memory or prevent
allocations should be using memory hotplug lock.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Tested-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com>
Tested-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Tested-by: Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gowrishankar.m@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This set of changes enables rte_malloc to allocate and free memory
as needed. Currently, it is disabled because legacy mem mode is
enabled unconditionally.
The way it works is, first malloc checks if there is enough memory
already allocated to satisfy user's request. If there isn't, we try
and allocate more memory. The reverse happens with free - we free
an element, check its size (including free element merging due to
adjacency) and see if it's bigger than hugepage size and that its
start and end span a hugepage or more. Then we remove the area from
malloc heap (adjusting element lengths where appropriate), and
deallocate the page.
For legacy mode, runtime alloc/free of pages is disabled.
It is worth noting that memseg lists are being sorted by page size,
and that we try our best to satisfy user's request. That is, if
the user requests an element from a 2MB page memory, we will check
if we can satisfy that request from existing memory, if not we try
and allocate more 2MB pages. If that fails and user also specified
a "size is hint" flag, we then check other page sizes and try to
allocate from there. If that fails too, then, depending on flags,
we may try allocating from other sockets. In other words, we try
our best to give the user what they asked for, but going to other
sockets is last resort - first we try to allocate more memory on
the same socket.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Tested-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com>
Tested-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Tested-by: Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gowrishankar.m@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
It's there, so we might as well use it. Some operations will be
sped up by that.
Since we have to allocate an fbarray for memzones, we have to do
it before we initialize memory subsystem, because that, in
secondary processes, will (later) allocate more fbarrays than the
primary process, which will result in inability to attach to
memzone fbarray if we do it after the fact.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Tested-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com>
Tested-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Tested-by: Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gowrishankar.m@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Before, we were aggregating multiple pages into one memseg, so the
number of memsegs was small. Now, each page gets its own memseg,
so the list of memsegs is huge. To accommodate the new memseg list
size and to keep the under-the-hood workings sane, the memseg list
is now not just a single list, but multiple lists. To be precise,
each hugepage size available on the system gets one or more memseg
lists, per socket.
In order to support dynamic memory allocation, we reserve all
memory in advance (unless we're in 32-bit legacy mode, in which
case we do not preallocate memory). As in, we do an anonymous
mmap() of the entire maximum size of memory per hugepage size, per
socket (which is limited to either RTE_MAX_MEMSEG_PER_TYPE pages or
RTE_MAX_MEM_MB_PER_TYPE megabytes worth of memory, whichever is the
smaller one), split over multiple lists (which are limited to
either RTE_MAX_MEMSEG_PER_LIST memsegs or RTE_MAX_MEM_MB_PER_LIST
megabytes per list, whichever is the smaller one). There is also
a global limit of CONFIG_RTE_MAX_MEM_MB megabytes, which is mainly
used for 32-bit targets to limit amounts of preallocated memory,
but can be used to place an upper limit on total amount of VA
memory that can be allocated by DPDK application.
So, for each hugepage size, we get (by default) up to 128G worth
of memory, per socket, split into chunks of up to 32G in size.
The address space is claimed at the start, in eal_common_memory.c.
The actual page allocation code is in eal_memalloc.c (Linux-only),
and largely consists of copied EAL memory init code.
Pages in the list are also indexed by address. That is, in order
to figure out where the page belongs, one can simply look at base
address for a memseg list. Similarly, figuring out IOVA address
of a memzone is a matter of finding the right memseg list, getting
offset and dividing by page size to get the appropriate memseg.
This commit also removes rte_eal_dump_physmem_layout() call,
according to deprecation notice [1], and removes that deprecation
notice as well.
On 32-bit targets due to limited VA space, DPDK will no longer
spread memory to different sockets like before. Instead, it will
(by default) allocate all of the memory on socket where master
lcore is. To override this behavior, --socket-mem must be used.
The rest of the changes are really ripple effects from the memseg
change - heap changes, compile fixes, and rewrites to support
fbarray-backed memseg lists. Due to earlier switch to _walk()
functions, most of the changes are simple fixes, however some
of the _walk() calls were switched to memseg list walk, where
it made sense to do so.
Additionally, we are also switching locks from flock() to fcntl().
Down the line, we will be introducing single-file segments option,
and we cannot use flock() locks to lock parts of the file. Therefore,
we will use fcntl() locks for legacy mem as well, in case someone is
unfortunate enough to accidentally start legacy mem primary process
alongside an already working non-legacy mem-based primary process.
[1] http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/34002/
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Tested-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com>
Tested-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Tested-by: Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gowrishankar.m@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
No major changes, just add some checks in a few key places, and
a new parameter to pass around.
Also, add a function to check malloc element for physical
contiguousness. For now, assume hugepage memory is always
contiguous, while non-hugepage memory will be checked.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Tested-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com>
Tested-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Tested-by: Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gowrishankar.m@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This will be needed because we need to know how big is the
new empty space, to check whether we can free some pages as
a result.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Tested-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com>
Tested-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Tested-by: Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gowrishankar.m@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Malloc heap is now a doubly linked list, so it's now possible to
iterate over each malloc element regardless of its state.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Tested-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com>
Tested-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Tested-by: Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gowrishankar.m@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
As we are preparing for dynamic memory allocation, we need to be
able to handle holes in our malloc heap, hence we're switching to
doubly linked list, and prepare infrastructure to support it.
Since our heap is now aware where are our first and last elements,
there is no longer any need to have a dummy element at the end of
each heap, so get rid of that as well. Instead, let insert/remove/
join/split operations handle end-of-list conditions automatically.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Tested-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com>
Tested-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Tested-by: Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gowrishankar.m@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Down the line, we will need to do everything from the heap as any
alloc or free may trigger alloc/free OS memory, which would involve
growing/shrinking heap.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Tested-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com>
Tested-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Tested-by: Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gowrishankar.m@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
When we're gathering statistics, we are traversing the freelist,
which may change under our feet in multithreaded scenario. This
is verified by occasional segfaults when running malloc autotest
on a machine with big amount of cores.
This patch protects malloc heap stats call with a lock. It changes
its definition in the process due to locking invalidating the
const-ness, but this isn't a public API, so that's OK.
Fixes: 2a5c356e177d ("memory: stats for malloc")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Replace the BSD license header with the SPDX tag for files
with only an Intel copyright on them.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Following discussions on the mailing list [1] and since nobody stood up to
implement the necessary cleanups, here is the ivshmem integration removal.
There is not much to say about this patch, a lot of code is being removed.
The default configuration file for packet_ordering example is replaced with
the "native" x86 file.
The only tricky part is in eal_memory with the memseg index stuff.
More cleanups can be done after this but will come in subsequent patchsets.
[1]: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-June/040844.html
Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
fix the error reported by checkpatch:
"ERROR: return is not a function, parentheses are not required"
remove parentheses in return like:
"return (logical expressions)"
remove parentheses in return a function like:
"return (rte_mempool_lookup(...))"
Fixes: 6307b909b8e0 ("lib: remove extra parenthesis after return")
Signed-off-by: Huawei Xie <huawei.xie@intel.com>
After the changes introduced by Dynamic Memzones, all the memsegs were
added to the malloc heap during init.
Those changes did not account for IVSHMEM memsegs which should not be
added to the malloc heap as part of available memory.
Fixes: fafcc11985a2 ("mem: rework memzone to be allocated by malloc")
Signed-off-by: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com>
In the current memory hierarchy, memsegs are groups of physically
contiguous hugepages, memzones are slices of memsegs and malloc further
slices memzones into smaller memory chunks.
This patch modifies malloc so it partitions memsegs instead of memzones.
Thus memzones would call malloc internally for memory allocation while
maintaining its ABI.
During initialization malloc sets all available memory as part of the heaps.
CONFIG_RTE_MALLOC_MEMZONE_SIZE was used to specify the default memory
block size to expand the heap. The option is not used/relevant anymore,
so we remove it.
Remove free_memseg field from internal mem config structure as it is
not used anymore.
Also remove code in ivshmem that was setting up free_memseg on init.
It would be possible to free memzones and therefore any other structure
based on memzones, ie. mempools
Signed-off-by: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com>
Move malloc inside eal and create a new section in MAINTAINERS file for
Memory Allocation in EAL.
Create a dummy malloc library to avoid breaking applications that have
librte_malloc in their DT_NEEDED entries.
This is the first step towards using malloc to allocate memory directly
from memsegs. Thus, memzones would allocate memory through malloc,
allowing to free memzones.
Signed-off-by: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com>
