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.Dd $Mdocdate: August 24 2024 $
.Dt UVM_PAGEALLOC 9
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm uvm_pagealloc ,
.Nm uvm_pagerealloc ,
.Nm uvm_pagefree ,
.Nm uvm_pglistalloc ,
.Nm uvm_pglistfree ,
.Nm uvm_page_physload
.Nd physical memory allocator
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/param.h
.In uvm/uvm.h
.Ft struct vm_page *
.Fn uvm_pagealloc "struct uvm_object *uobj" "voff_t off" "struct vm_anon *anon" "int flags"
.Ft void
.Fn uvm_pagerealloc "struct vm_page *pg" "struct uvm_object *newobj" "voff_t newoff"
.Ft void
.Fn uvm_pagefree "struct vm_page *pg"
.Ft int
.Fn uvm_pglistalloc "psize_t size" "paddr_t low" "paddr_t high" "paddr_t alignment" "paddr_t boundary" "struct pglist *rlist" "int nsegs" "int flags"
.Ft void
.Fn uvm_pglistfree "struct pglist *list"
.Ft void
.Fn uvm_page_physload "paddr_t start" "paddr_t end" "paddr_t avail_start" "paddr_t avail_end" "int free_list"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn uvm_pagealloc
function allocates a page of memory at virtual address
.Fa off
in either the object
.Fa uobj
or the anonymous memory
.Fa anon ,
or returns
.Dv NULL
if no pages are free.
Only one of
.Fa anon
and
.Fa uobj
can be non
.Dv NULL .
The
.Fa flags
can be any of:
.Bd -literal
#define UVM_PGA_USERESERVE      0x0001  /* ok to use reserve pages */
#define UVM_PGA_ZERO            0x0002  /* returned page must be zeroed */
.Ed
.Pp
The
.Dv UVM_PGA_USERESERVE
flag means to allocate a page even if that will result in the number of
free pages being lower than
.Dv uvmexp.reserve_pagedaemon
(if the current thread is the pagedaemon) or
.Dv uvmexp.reserve_kernel
(if the current thread is not the pagedaemon).
The
.Dv UVM_PGA_ZERO
flag causes the returned page to be filled with zeroes, either by allocating it
from a pool of pre-zeroed pages or by zeroing it in-line as necessary.
.Pp
The
.Fn uvm_pagerealloc
function reallocates page
.Fa pg
to a new object
.Fa newobj ,
at a new offset
.Fa newoff .
.Pp
The
.Fn uvm_pagefree
function frees the physical page
.Fa pg .
.Pp
The
.Fn uvm_pglistalloc
function allocates a list of pages for size
.Fa size
byte under various constraints.
.Fa low
and
.Fa high
describe the lowest and highest addresses acceptable for the list.
If
.Fa alignment
is non-zero, it describes the required alignment of the list, in
power-of-two notation.
If
.Fa boundary
is non-zero, no segment of the list may cross this power-of-two
boundary, relative to zero.
.Fa nsegs
is the maximum number of physically contiguous segments.
The allocated memory is returned in the
.Fa rlist
list.
The
.Fa flags
can be any of:
.Bd -literal
#define UVM_PLA_WAITOK	0x0001	/* may sleep */
#define UVM_PLA_NOWAIT	0x0002	/* can't sleep */
#define UVM_PLA_ZERO	0x0004	/* zero all pages before returning */
.Ed
.Pp
The
.Dv UVM_PLA_WAITOK
flag means that the function may sleep while trying to allocate the list of
pages (this is currently ignored).
Conversely, the
.Dv UVM_PLA_NOWAIT
flag signifies that the function may not sleep while allocating.
It is an error not to provide one of the above flags.
Optionally, one may also specify the
.Dv UVM_PLA_ZERO
flag to receive zeroed memory in the page list.
.Pp
The
.Fn uvm_pglistfree
function frees the list of pages pointed to by
.Fa list .
.Pp
The
.Fn uvm_page_physload
function loads physical memory segments into VM space on the specified
.Fa free_list .
.Fn uvm_page_physload
must be called at system boot time to set up physical memory management pages.
The arguments describe the
.Fa start
and
.Fa end
of the physical addresses of the segment, and the available start and end
addresses of pages not already in use.