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+.\" Copyright (c) 1988 The Regents of the University of California.
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
+.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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+.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
+.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
+.\" This product includes software developed by the University of
+.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
+.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
+.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
+.\" without specific prior written permission.
+.\"
+.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
+.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
+.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
+.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
+.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
+.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
+.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
+.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
+.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
+.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
+.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.\" @(#)appendix.t 5.1 (Berkeley) 4/16/91
+.\"
+.bp
+.H 1 "Appendix A - Implementation Details"
+.LP
+.nf
+.vS
+/*
+ * Constants for setting the parameters of the kernel memory allocator.
+ *
+ * 2 ** MINBUCKET is the smallest unit of memory that will be
+ * allocated. It must be at least large enough to hold a pointer.
+ *
+ * Units of memory less or equal to MAXALLOCSAVE will permanently
+ * allocate physical memory; requests for these size pieces of memory
+ * are quite fast. Allocations greater than MAXALLOCSAVE must
+ * always allocate and free physical memory; requests for these size
+ * allocations should be done infrequently as they will be slow.
+ * Constraints: CLBYTES <= MAXALLOCSAVE <= 2 ** (MINBUCKET + 14)
+ * and MAXALLOCSIZE must be a power of two.
+ */
+#define MINBUCKET 4 /* 4 => min allocation of 16 bytes */
+#define MAXALLOCSAVE (2 * CLBYTES)
+
+/*
+ * Maximum amount of kernel dynamic memory.
+ * Constraints: must be a multiple of the pagesize.
+ */
+#define MAXKMEM (1024 * PAGESIZE)
+
+/*
+ * Arena for all kernel dynamic memory allocation.
+ * This arena is known to start on a page boundary.
+ */
+extern char kmembase[MAXKMEM];
+
+/*
+ * Array of descriptors that describe the contents of each page
+ */
+struct kmemsizes {
+ short ks_indx; /* bucket index, size of small allocations */
+ u_short ks_pagecnt; /* for large allocations, pages allocated */
+} kmemsizes[MAXKMEM / PAGESIZE];
+
+/*
+ * Set of buckets for each size of memory block that is retained
+ */
+struct kmembuckets {
+ caddr_t kb_next; /* list of free blocks */
+} bucket[MINBUCKET + 16];
+.bp
+/*
+ * Macro to convert a size to a bucket index. If the size is constant,
+ * this macro reduces to a compile time constant.
+ */
+#define MINALLOCSIZE (1 << MINBUCKET)
+#define BUCKETINDX(size) \
+ (size) <= (MINALLOCSIZE * 128) \
+ ? (size) <= (MINALLOCSIZE * 8) \
+ ? (size) <= (MINALLOCSIZE * 2) \
+ ? (size) <= (MINALLOCSIZE * 1) \
+ ? (MINBUCKET + 0) \
+ : (MINBUCKET + 1) \
+ : (size) <= (MINALLOCSIZE * 4) \
+ ? (MINBUCKET + 2) \
+ : (MINBUCKET + 3) \
+ : (size) <= (MINALLOCSIZE* 32) \
+ ? (size) <= (MINALLOCSIZE * 16) \
+ ? (MINBUCKET + 4) \
+ : (MINBUCKET + 5) \
+ : (size) <= (MINALLOCSIZE * 64) \
+ ? (MINBUCKET + 6) \
+ : (MINBUCKET + 7) \
+ : (size) <= (MINALLOCSIZE * 2048) \
+ /* etc ... */
+
+/*
+ * Macro versions for the usual cases of malloc/free
+ */
+#define MALLOC(space, cast, size, flags) { \
+ register struct kmembuckets *kbp = &bucket[BUCKETINDX(size)]; \
+ long s = splimp(); \
+ if (kbp->kb_next == NULL) { \
+ (space) = (cast)malloc(size, flags); \
+ } else { \
+ (space) = (cast)kbp->kb_next; \
+ kbp->kb_next = *(caddr_t *)(space); \
+ } \
+ splx(s); \
+}
+
+#define FREE(addr) { \
+ register struct kmembuckets *kbp; \
+ register struct kmemsizes *ksp = \
+ &kmemsizes[((addr) - kmembase) / PAGESIZE]; \
+ long s = splimp(); \
+ if (1 << ksp->ks_indx > MAXALLOCSAVE) { \
+ free(addr); \
+ } else { \
+ kbp = &bucket[ksp->ks_indx]; \
+ *(caddr_t *)(addr) = kbp->kb_next; \
+ kbp->kb_next = (caddr_t)(addr); \
+ } \
+ splx(s); \
+}
+.vE
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