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.Dd $Mdocdate: June 26 2008 $
.Dt EXTENT 9
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm extent_create ,
.Nm extent_destroy ,
.Nm extent_alloc ,
.Nm extent_alloc_subregion ,
.Nm extent_alloc_region ,
.Nm extent_free ,
.Nm extent_print
.Nd general purpose extent manager
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Fd #include <sys/malloc.h>
.Fd #include <sys/extent.h>
.Ft struct extent *
.Fn extent_create "char *name" "u_long start" "u_long end" "int mtype" "caddr_t storage" "size_t storagesize" "int flags"
.Ft void
.Fn extent_destroy "struct extent *ex"
.Ft int
.Fn extent_alloc "struct extent *ex" "u_long size" "u_long alignment" "u_long skew" "u_long boundary" "int flags" "u_long *result"
.Ft int
.\" too many arguments for a single .Fn
.Fo extent_alloc_subregion
.Fa "struct extent *ex"
.Fa "u_long substart"
.Fa "u_long subend"
.Fa "u_long size"
.Fa "u_long alignment"
.Fa "u_long skew"
.Fa "u_long boundary"
.Fa "int flags"
.Fa "u_long *result"
.Fc
.Ft int
.Fn extent_alloc_region "struct extent *ex" "u_long start" "u_long size" "int flags"
.Ft int
.Fn extent_free "struct extent *ex" "u_long start" "u_long size" "int flags"
.Ft void
.Fn extent_print "struct extent *ex"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The extent manager provides management of areas of memory or
other enumerable spaces (such as I/O ports).
An opaque structure called an
.Nm extent map
keeps track of allocated regions within the enumerable space.
.Pp
.Fn extent_create
creates an extent map managing the space from
.Fa start
to
.Fa end
inclusive.
All memory allocation will use the memory type
.Fa mtype
.Po
see
.Xr malloc 9
.Pc .
The extent map will have the name
.Fa name ,
used for identification in case of errors or in
.Xr ddb 4
.Ic show extents .
If the flag
.Dv EX_NOCOALESCE
is set, internal coalescing of regions is disabled,
and only entire regions may be freed within the extent map, so that
.Fn extent_free
will never have to allocate a region descriptor.
.Pp
Some applications may want to use an extent map but
can't use
.Fn malloc
and
.Fn free .
These applications may provide pre-allocated storage for
all descriptor overhead with the arguments
.Fa storage
and
.Fa storagesize .
An extent of this type is called a
.Nm fixed extent .
If the application can safely use
.Fn malloc
and
.Fn free ,
.Fa storage
should be
.Dv NULL .
A fixed extent has a fixed number of region descriptors, so care
should be taken to provide enough storage for them; alternatively, the
flag
.Dv EX_MALLOCOK
may be passed to extent requests to indicate that a fixed extent
map may be extended using a call to
.Fn malloc .
.Pp
The caller should pass the flag
.Dv EX_WAITOK
or
.Dv EX_NOWAIT
to extent functions that have a memory overhead, to specify whether
it is okay to wait.
These functions are
.Fn extent_create
(non fixed extents),
.Fn extent_free
(unless
.Dv EX_NOCOALESCE
is set),
.Fn extent_alloc ,
.Fn extent_alloc_subregion
and
.Fn extent_alloc_region .
.Pp
.Fn extent_destroy
destroys the extent map
.Fa ex ,
freeing all allocated regions.
If the extent is not a fixed extent,
the region and internal extent descriptors themselves are freed.
This function always succeeds.
.Pp
.Fn extent_alloc
allocates a region in the extent map
.Fa ex
of size
.Fa size
that fits the provided parameters.
There are two distinct allocation policies, which are selected by the
.Fa flags
argument:
.Bl -tag -offset indent -width "XXXXXXXXX"
.It Dv EX_FAST
Allocate the first region that fits the provided parameters, regardless
of resulting extent fragmentation.
.It default
Allocate the smallest region that is capable of holding the request,
thus minimizing fragmentation of the extent.
.El
.Pp
The caller may specify that it is okay to wait for space to become free in the
extent by setting the flag
.Dv EX_WAITSPACE .
If
.Dv EX_WAITSPACE
is not set, the allocation will fail if the request can not be
satisfied without sleeping.
.Pp
The request will be aligned to a multiple of
.Fa alignment .
That value must be a power of 2.
If no alignment is necessary, the value
.Dv EX_NOALIGN
should be specified.
If
.Fa skew
is non-zero, it modifies the requested alignment result in the following way:
the value
.Pq Fa result No - Fa skew
is aligned to
.Fa alignment
boundaries.
.Fa skew
must be a smaller number than
.Fa alignment .
If
.Fa boundary
is not
.Dv EX_NOBOUNDARY ,
the allocated region will not cross any boundary lines, spaced
.Fa boundary
apart.
If the caller specifies the
.Dv EX_BOUNDZERO
flag, boundary lines begin at zero.
Otherwise, boundary lines begin at the beginning of the extent.
The allocated region may begin on a
boundary line, but the end of the region will not touch nor cross a
boundary line.
A
.Fa boundary
argument smaller than the sum of the requested skew and the size of
the request is invalid.
Upon successful completion,
.Fa *result
will contain the start of the allocated region.
.Pp
.Fn extent_alloc_subregion
is a generalized version of
.Fn extent_alloc
that also allows the caller to specify that the allocated region must
fall within the subregion from
.Fa substart
to
.Fa subend
inclusive.
.Pp
.Fn extent_alloc_region
allocates the specific region in the extent map
.Fa ex
beginning at
.Fa start
with the size
.Fa size .
The caller may specify that it is okay to wait for the indicated
region to be free by setting the flag
.Dv EX_WAITSPACE .
If
.Dv EX_WAITSPACE
is not set, the allocation will fail if the request can not be
satisfied without sleeping.
.Pp
.Fn extent_free
frees a region of
.Fa size
bytes starting at
.Fa start
in the extent map
.Fa ex .
If the extent has the
.Dv EX_NOCOALESCE
property, only entire regions may be freed.
If the extent has the
.Dv EX_NOCOALESCE
property and the caller attempts to free a partial region, behavior is
undefined.
If called on an extent without the
.Dv EX_NOCOALESCE
property, this function can fail with error codes listed below, otherwise
this function will always succeed.
.Pp
.Fn extent_print
Prints out information about extent
.Fa ex .
This function always succeeds.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The behavior of all extent manager functions is undefined if given
invalid arguments.
.Fn extent_create
returns the extent map on success, or
.Dv NULL
if it fails to allocate storage for the extent map.
It always succeeds when creating a fixed extent or when given the flag
.Dv EX_WAITOK .
.Fn extent_alloc ,
.Fn extent_alloc_region ,
.Fn extent_alloc_subregion ,
and
.Fn extent_free
return one of the following values:
.Bl -tag -offset indent -width "XXXXXXXX"
.It Dv 0
Operation was successful.
.It Dv ENOMEM
If
.Dv EX_NOWAIT
is specified, the extent manager was not able to allocate a region
descriptor for the new region or to split a region when freeing a
partial region.
.It Dv EAGAIN
Requested region is not available and
.Dv EX_WAITSPACE
was not specified.
.It Dv EINTR
Process received a signal while waiting for the requested region to
become available in the extent.
.El
.Sh EXAMPLES
Here is an example of a (useless) function that uses several of the
extent manager routines.
.Bd -literal
void
func()
{
	struct extent *foo_ex;
	u_long region_start;
	int error;

	/*
	 * Extent "foo" manages a 256k region starting at 0x0 and
	 * only allows complete regions to be freed so that
	 * extent_free() never needs to allocate memory.
	 */
	foo_ex = extent_create("foo", 0x0, 0x3ffff, M_DEVBUF,
	    NULL, 0, EX_WAITOK | EX_NOCOALESCE);

	/*
	 * Allocate an 8k region, aligned to a 4k boundary, which
	 * does not cross any of the 3 64k boundaries (at 64k,
	 * 128k, and 192k) within the extent.
	 */
	error = extent_alloc(foo_ex, 0x2000, 0x1000, 0x10000,
	    EX_NOWAIT, &region_start);
	if (error)
		panic("you lose");

	/*
	 * Give up the extent.
	 */
	extent_destroy(foo_ex);
}
.Ed
.\"
.\" Yeah, right... document EX_CATCH first...
.\"
.\" .Sh LIMITATIONS
.\" The flag
.\" .Dv EX_CATCH
.\" cannot be used to catch signals in all circumstances since
.\" .Xr malloc 9
.\" does not provide such a functionality.
.Sh CODE REFERENCES
The extent manager itself is implemented within the file
.Pa sys/kern/subr_extent.c .
.Pp
The i386 bus management code uses the extent manager for managing I/O
ports and I/O memory.
See
.Pa sys/arch/i386/i386/machdep.c .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ddb 4 ,
.Xr malloc 9
.Sh HISTORY
The extent manager appeared in
.Nx 1.3 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
The extent manager was designed and implemented by
.An Jason R. Thorpe Aq thorpej@NetBSD.ORG .
.An Matthias Drochner Aq drochner@zelux6.zel.kfa-juelich.de
contributed to the initial testing and optimization of the implementation.
.An Chris Demetriou Aq cgd@NetBSD.ORG
contributed many architectural suggestions.