[PATCH 1/3] genalloc: track beginning of allocations

2018-05-01 Thread Igor Stoppa
The genalloc library is only capable of tracking if a certain unit of allocation is in use or not. It is not capable of discerning where the memory associated to an allocation request begins and where it ends. The reason is that units of allocations are tracked by using a bitmap, where each bit r

[PATCH 1/3] genalloc: track beginning of allocations

2018-04-28 Thread Igor Stoppa
The genalloc library is only capable of tracking if a certain unit of allocation is in use or not. It is not capable of discerning where the memory associated to an allocation request begins and where it ends. The reason is that units of allocations are tracked by using a bitmap, where each bit r