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+/*
+ * UCW Library -- Allocation of Large Aligned Buffers
+ *
+ * (c) 2006 Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
+ *
+ * This software may be freely distributed and used according to the terms
+ * of the GNU Lesser General Public License.
+ */
+
+#include "lib/lib.h"
+
+#include <sys/mman.h>
+#include <sys/user.h>
+
+static unsigned int
+big_round(unsigned int len)
+{
+ return ALIGN_TO(len, PAGE_SIZE);
+}
+
+void *
+big_alloc(unsigned int len)
+{
+ len = big_round(len);
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG
+ len += 2*PAGE_SIZE;
+#endif
+ byte *p = mmap(NULL, len, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANON, -1, 0);
+ if (p == (byte*) MAP_FAILED)
+ die("Cannot mmap %d bytes of memory: %m", len);
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG
+ mprotect(p, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_NONE);
+ mprotect(p+len-PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_NONE);
+ p += PAGE_SIZE;
+#endif
+ return p;
+}
+
+void
+big_free(void *start, unsigned int len)
+{
+ byte *p = start;
+ ASSERT(!((addr_int_t) p & (PAGE_SIZE-1)));
+ len = big_round(len);
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG
+ p -= PAGE_SIZE;
+ len += 2*PAGE_SIZE;
+#endif
+ munmap(p, len);
+}
+
+#ifdef TEST
+
+int main(void)
+{
+ byte *p = big_alloc(123456);
+ // p[-1] = 1;
+ big_free(p, 123456);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+#endif