[RFC PATCH v1 5/6] tools/nolibc/stdlib: Implement `malloc()`, `calloc()`, `realloc()` and `free()`

From: Ammar Faizi
Date: Sun Mar 20 2022 - 05:39:32 EST


Implement basic dynamic allocator functions. These functions are
currently only available on architectures that have nolibc mmap()
syscall implemented. These are not a super-fast memory allocator,
but at least they can satisfy basic needs for having heap without
libc.

Signed-off-by: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/include/nolibc/stdlib.h | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 79 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/include/nolibc/stdlib.h b/tools/include/nolibc/stdlib.h
index 733105c574ee..13600e73404d 100644
--- a/tools/include/nolibc/stdlib.h
+++ b/tools/include/nolibc/stdlib.h
@@ -10,8 +10,24 @@
#include "std.h"
#include "arch.h"
#include "types.h"
+#include "string.h"
#include "sys.h"

+struct nolibc_heap {
+ size_t len;
+ char user_p[] __attribute__((__aligned__));
+};
+
+#ifndef offsetof
+#define offsetof(TYPE, FIELD) ((size_t) &((TYPE *)0)->FIELD)
+#endif
+
+#ifndef container_of
+#define container_of(PTR, TYPE, FIELD) ({ \
+ __typeof__(((TYPE *)0)->FIELD) *__FIELD_PTR = (PTR); \
+ (TYPE *)((char *) __FIELD_PTR - offsetof(TYPE, FIELD)); \
+})
+#endif

/* Buffer used to store int-to-ASCII conversions. Will only be implemented if
* any of the related functions is implemented. The area is large enough to
@@ -60,6 +76,18 @@ int atoi(const char *s)
return atol(s);
}

+static __attribute__((unused))
+void free(void *ptr)
+{
+ struct nolibc_heap *heap;
+
+ if (!ptr)
+ return;
+
+ heap = container_of(ptr, struct nolibc_heap, user_p);
+ munmap(heap, heap->len);
+}
+
/* Converts the unsigned long integer <in> to its hex representation into
* buffer <buffer>, which must be long enough to store the number and the
* trailing zero (17 bytes for "ffffffffffffffff" or 9 for "ffffffff"). The
@@ -182,6 +210,57 @@ char *ltoa(long in)
return itoa_buffer;
}

+static inline __attribute__((unused))
+void *malloc(size_t len)
+{
+ struct nolibc_heap *heap;
+
+ heap = mmap(NULL, sizeof(*heap) + len, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
+ MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0);
+ if (__builtin_expect(heap == MAP_FAILED, 0))
+ return NULL;
+
+ heap->len = sizeof(*heap) + len;
+ return heap->user_p;
+}
+
+static inline __attribute__((unused))
+void *calloc(size_t size, size_t nmemb)
+{
+ void *orig;
+ size_t res = 0;
+
+ if (__builtin_expect(__builtin_mul_overflow(nmemb, size, &res), 0)) {
+ SET_ERRNO(ENOMEM);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * No need to zero the heap, the MAP_ANONYMOUS in malloc()
+ * already does it.
+ */
+ return malloc(res);
+}
+
+static inline __attribute__((unused))
+void *realloc(void *old_ptr, size_t new_size)
+{
+ struct nolibc_heap *heap;
+ void *ret;
+
+ if (!old_ptr)
+ return malloc(new_size);
+
+ ret = malloc(new_size);
+ if (__builtin_expect(!ret, 0))
+ return NULL;
+
+ heap = container_of(old_ptr, struct nolibc_heap, user_p);
+ memcpy(ret, heap->user_p, heap->len);
+ munmap(heap, heap->len);
+ return ret;
+}
+
/* converts unsigned long integer <in> to a string using the static itoa_buffer
* and returns the pointer to that string.
*/
--
Ammar Faizi