Re: [RFC PATCH v2 6/8] tools/nolibc/stdlib: Implement `malloc()`, `calloc()`, `realloc()` and `free()`

From: Alviro Iskandar Setiawan
Date: Tue Mar 22 2022 - 08:36:40 EST


On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 7:18 PM Ammar Faizi wrote:
> Rounding up is not useful here, because we don't have any free list to keep
> track the unused block of memory. I mean, even if it's rounded up, the extra
> space after rounded up cannot be utilized with this design. There is no
> book-keeping that tracks it.
>
> Though, the kernel still allocates the size in multiple page size.

BTW, what David meant probably, don't call mmap() again if heap->len
is greater than new_len. Isn't that simple enough to give it a go?

-- Viro