/* * libc/stdlib/malloc/free.c -- free function * * Copyright (C) 2002 NEC Corporation * Copyright (C) 2002 Miles Bader * * This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU Lesser * General Public License. See the file COPYING.LIB in the main * directory of this archive for more details. * * Written by Miles Bader */ #include #include #include #include "malloc.h" #include "heap.h" /* Try to release the free-area FA in HEAP back to the system. */ static void unmap_free_area (struct heap *heap, struct heap_free_area *fa) { unsigned long start, end; #ifndef MALLOC_USE_SBRK unsigned long unmap_start, unmap_end; #endif end = (unsigned long)HEAP_FREE_AREA_END (fa); #ifdef MALLOC_USE_SBRK /* When using sbrk, we only shrink the heap from the end. It would be possible to allow _both_ -- shrinking via sbrk when possible, and otherwise shrinking via munmap, but this results in holes in memory that prevent the brk from every growing back down; since we only ever grow the heap via sbrk, this tends to produce a continuously growing brk (though the actual memory is unmapped), which could eventually run out of address space. Note that `sbrk(0)' shouldn't normally do a system call, so this test is reasonably cheap. */ if ((void *)end != sbrk (0)) { MALLOC_DEBUG (" not unmapping: 0x%lx - 0x%lx (%d bytes)\n", (unsigned long)HEAP_FREE_AREA_START (fa), (unsigned long)HEAP_FREE_AREA_END (fa), fa->size); return; } #endif start = (unsigned long)HEAP_FREE_AREA_START (fa); MALLOC_DEBUG (" unmapping: 0x%lx - 0x%lx (%ld bytes)\n", start, end, end - start); /* Remove FA from the heap. */ __heap_unlink_free_area (heap, fa); if (!fa->next && !fa->prev) /* We want to avoid the heap from losing all memory, so reserve a bit. This test is only a heuristic -- the existance of another free area, even if it's smaller than MALLOC_MIN_SIZE, will cause us not to reserve anything. */ { /* Put the reserved memory back in the heap; we asssume that MALLOC_UNMAP_THRESHOLD is greater than MALLOC_MIN_SIZE, so we use the latter unconditionally here. */ __heap_free (heap, (void *)start, MALLOC_MIN_SIZE); start += MALLOC_MIN_SIZE; } #ifdef MALLOC_USE_SBRK sbrk (start - end); #else /* !MALLOC_USE_SBRK */ /* MEM/LEN may not be page-aligned, so we have to page-align them, and return any left-over bits on the end to the heap. */ unmap_start = MALLOC_ROUND_UP_TO_PAGE_SIZE (start); unmap_end = MALLOC_ROUND_DOWN_TO_PAGE_SIZE (end); /* We have to be careful that any left-over bits are large enough to return. Note that we _don't check_ to make sure there's room to grow/shrink the start/end by another page, we just assume that the unmap threshold is high enough so that this is always safe (i.e., it should probably be at least 3 pages). */ if (unmap_start > start) { if (unmap_start - start < HEAP_MIN_FREE_AREA_SIZE) unmap_start += MALLOC_PAGE_SIZE; __heap_free (heap, (void *)start, unmap_start - start); } if (end > unmap_end) { if (end - unmap_end < HEAP_MIN_FREE_AREA_SIZE) unmap_end -= MALLOC_PAGE_SIZE; __heap_free (heap, (void *)unmap_end, end - unmap_end); } if (unmap_end > unmap_start) munmap ((void *)unmap_start, unmap_end - unmap_start); #endif /* MALLOC_USE_SBRK */ } void free (void *mem) { if (mem) { size_t size; struct heap_free_area *fa; mem -= MALLOC_ALIGNMENT; size = *(size_t *)mem; MALLOC_DEBUG ("free: 0x%lx (base = 0x%lx, total_size = %d)\n", (long)mem + MALLOC_ALIGNMENT, (long)mem, size); fa = __heap_free (&__malloc_heap, mem, size); /* Now we check to see if FA has grown big enough that it should be unmapped. */ if (HEAP_FREE_AREA_SIZE (fa) >= MALLOC_UNMAP_THRESHOLD) /* Get rid of it. */ unmap_free_area (&__malloc_heap, fa); } }