summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/devio/mem.c
blob: 65caa19fddf30d039c3cd8d50e654c09a24d50ef (plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
/* Some random handy ops for dealing with rpcs that return memory.

   Copyright (C) 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

   Written by Miles Bader <miles@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

   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; either version 2, or (at
   your option) any later version.

   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., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */

#include <hurd.h>
#include <string.h>

/* ---------------------------------------------------------------- */

/* Makes sure that BUF, points to a buffer with AMOUNT bytes available.
   *BUF_LEN should be the current length of *BUF, and if this isn't enough to
   hold AMOUNT bytes, then more is allocated and the new buffer is returned
   in *BUF and *BUF_LEN.  If a memory allocation error occurs, the error code
   is returned, otherwise 0.  */
error_t
allocate(vm_address_t *buf, vm_size_t *buf_len, vm_size_t amount)
{
  if (*buf_len < amount)
    {
      error_t err = vm_allocate(mach_task_self(), buf, amount, 1);
      if (err)
	return err;
    }

  *buf_len = amount;
  return 0;
}

/* Deallocates any pages entirely within the last EXCESS bytes of the BUF_LEN
   long buffer, BUF.  */
error_t
deallocate_excess(vm_address_t buf, vm_size_t buf_len, vm_size_t excess)
{
  vm_size_t excess_pages = buf_len - round_page(buf_len - excess);
  if (excess_pages > 0)
    return 
      vm_deallocate(mach_task_self(),
		    round_page(buf + buf_len - excess), excess_pages);
  else
    return 0;
}