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    efi_loader: Track size of pool allocations to allow freeing · 42417bc8
    Stefan Brüns authored
    
    
    We need a functional free_pool implementation, as otherwise each
    allocate_pool causes growth of the memory descriptor table.
    
    Different to free_pages, free_pool does not provide the size for the
    to be freed allocation, thus we have to track the size ourselves.
    
    As the only EFI requirement for pool allocation is an alignment of
    8 bytes, we can keep allocating a range using the page allocator,
    reserve the first 8 bytes for our bookkeeping and hand out the
    remainder to the caller. This saves us from having to use any
    independent data structures for tracking.
    
    To simplify the conversion between pool allocations and the corresponding
    page allocation, we create an auxiliary struct efi_pool_allocation.
    
    Given the allocation size free_pool size can handoff freeing the page
    range, which was indirectly allocated by a call to allocate_pool,
    to free_pages.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Brüns <stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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