WIP: user heap using shared multi heap on Zephyr#102
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the user_malloc and user_free functions will be used on platforms with support for external PSRAM. This way we can differentiate allocations in the internal or external RAM. Signed-off-by: Marco Casaroli <marco.casaroli@gmail.com>
These functions allocate memory on external PSRAM on boards that have CONFIG_SHARED_MULTI_HEAP enabled. Otherwise, they work just like core_malloc and core_free. Signed-off-by: Marco Casaroli <marco.casaroli@gmail.com>
On systems with a single heap, these functions work exactly the same as malloc and free. Signed-off-by: Marco Casaroli <marco.casaroli@gmail.com>
The user heap is user for large objects. Signed-off-by: Marco Casaroli <marco.casaroli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marco Casaroli <marco.casaroli@gmail.com>
Use the user heap for wamr and related container memory. Signed-off-by: Marco Casaroli <marco.casaroli@gmail.com>
In favor of the user heap mechanism. Signed-off-by: Marco Casaroli <marco.casaroli@gmail.com>
We now use the user heap mechanism. Signed-off-by: Marco Casaroli <marco.casaroli@gmail.com>
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| memset(&init_args, 0, sizeof(RuntimeInitArgs)); | ||
| init_args.mem_alloc_type = Alloc_With_Pool; | ||
| init_args.mem_alloc_option.pool.heap_buf = wamr_heap_buf; | ||
| init_args.mem_alloc_option.pool.heap_size = sizeof(wamr_heap_buf); |
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If we use system heap in systems where we don't have PSRAM for wasm, then we can't limit it anymore. I don't think it's good - we need a way to limit max amount of warm's linear memory, don't we?
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I think we should enable WASM_MEM_ALLOC_WITH_USAGE and limit the amount of memory per-container instead. This is just the allocation. Every use of user_malloc should properly handle the ENOMEM error and recover gracefully if possible.
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Closing this in favor of #116 |
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In embedded systems with external PSRAM, we usually want to store our objects in two different heaps: one system heap for small and fast objects (like the internal SRAM); and another user heap or application heap which is used for large objects stored in external slow PSRAM.
This adds the user heap interface in ocre, and sets WAMR to use it as the application heap. We also use it to store the container parameter as well as the container image executable for running in WAMR.
This ultimately removes the need for the two build time configuration variables and make them automatically use the external heap.
In MMU systems, we usually only have one heap, so
user_malloc()does the same ascore_malloc().TODO:
user_realloc()must be correclty implemented for Zephyr.Type of change
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