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26.Dd October 30, 2018
27.Dt CONTIGMALLOC 9
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm contigmalloc , contigfree
31.Nd manage contiguous kernel physical memory
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33.In sys/types.h
34.In sys/malloc.h
35.Ft "void *"
36.Fo contigmalloc
37.Fa "unsigned long size"
38.Fa "struct malloc_type *type"
39.Fa "int flags"
40.Fa "vm_paddr_t low"
41.Fa "vm_paddr_t high"
42.Fa "unsigned long alignment"
43.Fa "vm_paddr_t boundary"
44.Fc
45.Ft void
46.Fo contigfree
47.Fa "void *addr"
48.Fa "unsigned long size"
49.Fa "struct malloc_type *type"
50.Fc
51.In sys/param.h
52.In sys/domainset.h
53.Ft "void *"
54.Fo contigmalloc_domainset
55.Fa "unsigned long size"
56.Fa "struct malloc_type *type"
57.Fa "struct domainset *ds"
58.Fa "int flags"
59.Fa "vm_paddr_t low"
60.Fa "vm_paddr_t high"
61.Fa "unsigned long alignment"
62.Fa "vm_paddr_t boundary"
63.Fc
64.Sh DESCRIPTION
65The
66.Fn contigmalloc
67function allocates
68.Fa size
69bytes of contiguous physical memory that is aligned to
70.Fa alignment
71bytes, and which does not cross a boundary of
72.Fa boundary
73bytes.
74If successful, the allocation will reside between physical addresses
75.Fa low
76and
77.Fa high .
78The returned pointer points to a wired kernel virtual
79address range of
80.Fa size
81bytes allocated from the kernel virtual address (KVA) map.
82.Pp
83The
84.Fn contigmalloc_domainset
85variant allows the caller to additionally specify a
86.Xr numa 4
87domain selection policy.
88See
89.Xr domainset 9
90for some example policies.
91.Pp
92The
93.Fa flags
94parameter modifies
95.Fn contigmalloc Ns 's
96behaviour as follows:
97.Bl -tag -width indent
98.It Dv M_ZERO
99Causes the allocated physical memory to be zero filled.
100.It Dv M_NOWAIT
101Causes
102.Fn contigmalloc
103to return
104.Dv NULL
105if the request cannot be immediately fulfilled due to resource shortage.
106.El
107.Pp
108Other flags (if present) are ignored.
109.Pp
110The
111.Fn contigfree
112function deallocates memory allocated by a previous call to
113.Fn contigmalloc
114or
115.Fn contigmalloc_domainset .
116.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
117The
118.Fn contigmalloc
119function does not sleep waiting for memory resources to be freed up,
120but instead actively reclaims pages before giving up.
121However, unless
122.Dv M_NOWAIT
123is specified, it may select a page for reclamation that must first be
124written to backing storage, causing it to sleep.
125.Pp
126The
127.Fn contigfree
128function does not accept
129.Dv NULL
130as an address input, unlike
131.Xr free 9 .
132.Sh RETURN VALUES
133The
134.Fn contigmalloc
135function returns a kernel virtual address if allocation succeeds,
136or
137.Dv NULL
138otherwise.
139.Sh EXAMPLES
140.Bd -literal
141void *p;
142p = contigmalloc(8192, M_DEVBUF, M_ZERO, 0, (1L << 22),
143    32 * 1024, 1024 * 1024);
144.Ed
145.Pp
146Ask for 8192 bytes of zero-filled memory residing between physical
147address 0 and 4194303 inclusive, aligned to a 32K boundary and not
148crossing a 1M address boundary.
149.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
150The
151.Fn contigmalloc
152function will panic if
153.Fa size
154is zero, or if
155.Fa alignment
156or
157.Fa boundary
158is not a power of two.
159.Sh SEE ALSO
160.Xr malloc 9 ,
161.Xr memguard 9
162