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authorNick Bofferding <bofferdn@us.ibm.com>2015-02-28 01:26:21 -0600
committerA. Patrick Williams III <iawillia@us.ibm.com>2015-03-01 16:55:08 -0600
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parentdb9b6fed621390d10459834300924e0fafd6fa04 (diff)
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Reduce memory fragementation in large allocations
- Free excess allocation pages in reverse order Change-Id: I4c5f2909275e2d3dc71b0806fbf177a101b47292 CQ: FW633822 Reviewed-on: http://gfw160.aus.stglabs.ibm.com:8080/gerrit/16066 Tested-by: Jenkins Server Reviewed-by: Daniel M. Crowell <dcrowell@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: A. Patrick Williams III <iawillia@us.ibm.com>
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-rw-r--r--src/include/kernel/pagemgr.H11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/include/kernel/pagemgr.H b/src/include/kernel/pagemgr.H
index dcd14c456..95bb2fb65 100644
--- a/src/include/kernel/pagemgr.H
+++ b/src/include/kernel/pagemgr.H
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@
/* */
/* OpenPOWER HostBoot Project */
/* */
-/* COPYRIGHT International Business Machines Corp. 2010,2014 */
+/* Contributors Listed Below - COPYRIGHT 2010,2015 */
+/* [+] International Business Machines Corp. */
+/* */
/* */
/* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); */
/* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. */
@@ -81,8 +83,13 @@ class PageManagerCore
* Return page allocations to the page manager
* @param[in] i_page, pointer to the allocation
* @param[in] i_pageCount, the number of pages in the allocation
+ * @param[in] i_overAllocated, whether pages to free are the being
+ * returned because the intial allocation was larger than needed
*/
- void freePage( void * i_page, size_t i_pageCount );
+ void freePage(
+ void* i_page,
+ size_t i_pageCount,
+ bool i_overAllocated = false );
/**
* Coalesce pages in the page manager (defrag)
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