linux/arch/mn10300
Thomas Petazzoni 2d6ffcca62 inflate: refactor inflate malloc code
Inflate requires some dynamic memory allocation very early in the boot
process and this is provided with a set of four functions:
malloc/free/gzip_mark/gzip_release.

The old inflate code used a mark/release strategy rather than implement
free.  This new version instead keeps a count on the number of outstanding
allocations and when it hits zero, it resets the malloc arena.

This allows removing all the mark and release implementations and unifying
all the malloc/free implementations.

The architecture-dependent code must define two addresses:
 - free_mem_ptr, the address of the beginning of the area in which
   allocations should be made
 - free_mem_end_ptr, the address of the end of the area in which
   allocations should be made. If set to 0, then no check is made on
   the number of allocations, it just grows as much as needed

The architecture-dependent code can also provide an arch_decomp_wdog()
function call.  This function will be called several times during the
decompression process, and allow to notify the watchdog that the system is
still running.  If an architecture provides such a call, then it must
define ARCH_HAS_DECOMP_WDOG so that the generic inflate code calls
arch_decomp_wdog().

Work initially done by Matt Mackall, updated to a recent version of the
kernel and improved by me.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <mikael.starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:28 -07:00
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boot inflate: refactor inflate malloc code 2008-07-25 10:53:28 -07:00
configs MN10300: Update asb2303_defconfig 2008-02-19 15:51:36 -08:00
kernel MN10300: Fix MN10300's serial port driver to get at its tty_struct 2008-07-20 17:12:35 -07:00
lib mn10300: provide __ucmpdi2() for MN10300 2008-07-04 10:40:07 -07:00
mm bootmem: replace node_boot_start in struct bootmem_data 2008-07-24 10:47:20 -07:00
oprofile mn10300: add the MN10300/AM33 architecture to the kernel 2008-02-08 09:22:30 -08:00
proc-mn103e010 mn10300: add the MN10300/AM33 architecture to the kernel 2008-02-08 09:22:30 -08:00
unit-asb2303 mn10300: add platform MTD support for the ASB2303 board 2008-02-08 09:22:30 -08:00
unit-asb2305 iomap: fix 64 bits resources on 32 bits 2008-04-29 08:06:02 -07:00
Kconfig BKL: revert back to the old spinlock implementation 2008-05-10 20:58:02 -07:00
Kconfig.debug mn10300: add the MN10300/AM33 architecture to the kernel 2008-02-08 09:22:30 -08:00
Makefile mn10300: add the MN10300/AM33 architecture to the kernel 2008-02-08 09:22:30 -08:00