1 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
3 //! So far the kernel's `Box` and `Vec` types can't be used by userspace test cases, since all users
4 //! of those types (e.g. `CString`) use kernel allocators for instantiation.
6 //! In order to allow userspace test cases to make use of such types as well, implement the
7 //! `Cmalloc` allocator within the allocator_test module and type alias all kernel allocators to
8 //! `Cmalloc`. The `Cmalloc` allocator uses libc's `realloc()` function as allocator backend.
10 #![allow(missing_docs)]
12 use super::{flags::*, AllocError, Allocator, Flags};
13 use core::alloc::Layout;
16 use core::ptr::NonNull;
18 /// The userspace allocator based on libc.
21 pub type Kmalloc = Cmalloc;
22 pub type Vmalloc = Kmalloc;
23 pub type KVmalloc = Kmalloc;
26 #[link_name = "aligned_alloc"]
27 fn libc_aligned_alloc(align: usize, size: usize) -> *mut crate::ffi::c_void;
30 fn libc_free(ptr: *mut crate::ffi::c_void);
34 // - memory remains valid until it is explicitly freed,
35 // - passing a pointer to a valid memory allocation created by this `Allocator` is always OK,
36 // - `realloc` provides the guarantees as provided in the `# Guarantees` section.
37 unsafe impl Allocator for Cmalloc {
39 ptr: Option<NonNull<u8>>,
43 ) -> Result<NonNull<[u8]>, AllocError> {
46 if old_layout.size() == 0 {
52 None => ptr::null_mut(),
55 if layout.size() == 0 {
56 // SAFETY: `src` is either NULL or was previously allocated with this `Allocator`
57 unsafe { libc_free(src.cast()) };
59 return Ok(NonNull::slice_from_raw_parts(
60 crate::alloc::dangling_from_layout(layout),
65 // SAFETY: Returns either NULL or a pointer to a memory allocation that satisfies or
66 // exceeds the given size and alignment requirements.
67 let dst = unsafe { libc_aligned_alloc(layout.align(), layout.size()) } as *mut u8;
68 let dst = NonNull::new(dst).ok_or(AllocError)?;
70 if flags.contains(__GFP_ZERO) {
71 // SAFETY: The preceding calls to `libc_aligned_alloc` and `NonNull::new`
72 // guarantee that `dst` points to memory of at least `layout.size()` bytes.
73 unsafe { dst.as_ptr().write_bytes(0, layout.size()) };
78 // - `src` has previously been allocated with this `Allocator`; `dst` has just been
79 // newly allocated, hence the memory regions do not overlap.
80 // - both` src` and `dst` are properly aligned and valid for reads and writes
82 ptr::copy_nonoverlapping(
85 cmp::min(layout.size(), old_layout.size()),
90 // SAFETY: `src` is either NULL or was previously allocated with this `Allocator`
91 unsafe { libc_free(src.cast()) };
93 Ok(NonNull::slice_from_raw_parts(dst, layout.size()))