Zeroing out memory on rte_zmalloc_socket is not required anymore since all
allocated memory is already zeroed.
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>
