Re: [PATCH] Huge changes in mm.c

[Vincent Pelletier]

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Vincent Guffens wrote:
> Vincent Pelletier wrote:
> It must be released by the one who called the malloc.

I don't see any good reason to forget - on kernel side - this chunk, as
we still keep the struct member in memory.
Anyway, I've done some other major changes to this patch, now the chunks
are a simple chained list. That prevents bugs like thinking the first
chunk is right after the last one in memory.
The new code is also much lighter on dprintf. I'll send a patch when
I'll have solved what I think is the last bug which only triggers on
x86: malloc returns sometime out of region pointers...

> grub_size_t n = ((size + GRUB_MM_ALIGN - 1) >> GRUB_MM_ALIGN_LOG2) + 1;
> which adds the extra block for the header.

I prefer relying on sizeof when it comes to allocating space instead of
such formula. If we ever change the struct size, it would break in a
strange way - like all memory allocation problems.

Vincent Pelletier
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