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+/* Copyright 2016 IBM Corp.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
+ * implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ *
+ * Simple power-of-two buddy allocation mechanism.
+ *
+ */
+#ifndef __BUDDY_H
+#define __BUDDY_H
+
+#include "bitmap.h"
+
+#define BUDDY_MAX_ORDER 30
+
+struct buddy {
+ /* max_order is both the height of the tree - 1 and the ^2 of the
+ * size of the lowest level.
+ *
+ * So if we have 512k elements, max_order is 19, which gives us
+ * a 20 levels tree.
+ *
+ * The max supported order is 30 for now. We can increase that
+ * later if really needed but the performance is going to be
+ * already pretty bad if we go near that limit.
+ */
+ unsigned int max_order;
+
+ /* For each order, we keep track of how many free modes we
+ * have there to speed up searches.
+ */
+ unsigned int freecounts[BUDDY_MAX_ORDER + 1];
+ bitmap_elem_t map[];
+};
+
+extern struct buddy *buddy_create(unsigned int max_order);
+extern void buddy_destroy(struct buddy *b);
+
+extern int buddy_alloc(struct buddy *b, unsigned int order);
+extern bool buddy_reserve(struct buddy *b, unsigned int index, unsigned int order);
+extern void buddy_free(struct buddy *b, unsigned int index, unsigned int order);
+extern void buddy_reset(struct buddy *b);
+
+#endif /* __BUDDY_H */