[Xen-devel] [PATCH V4 5/8] xen/common: Introduce xrealloc_flex_struct() helper macros

[Oleksandr Tyshchenko <olekstysh@gmail.com>]

From: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>

This patch introduces type-safe helper macros to re-allocate space
for a structure with a flexible array of typed objects.

For example, if we need to re-size an array with a single element:

   struct arrlen
   {
      size_t len;
      int data[1];
   };

We can use the proposed macros in the following way:

   new_ptr = realloc_flex_struct(old_ptr, data, nr_elem);

Subsequent patch will use this macros.

Also, while here, introduce xmalloc_flex_struct() to allocate space
for a structure with a flexible array of typed objects.

Suggested-by: Volodymyr Babchuk <Volodymyr_Babchuk@epam.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
CC: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
CC: George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
CC: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
CC: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
CC: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
CC: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
CC: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
CC: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
CC: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
CC: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>

---
Changes V3 -> V4:
    - clarified patch description
    - modified to not use leading underscores
    - removed unnecessary pair of outermost parentheses
    - modified to use "nr" instead of "len"
    - placed xmalloc_flex_struct before xrealloc_flex_struct
    - simplified xrealloc_flex_struct macros
---
 xen/include/xen/xmalloc.h | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/xen/include/xen/xmalloc.h b/xen/include/xen/xmalloc.h
index 831152f..f0736ce 100644
--- a/xen/include/xen/xmalloc.h
+++ b/xen/include/xen/xmalloc.h
@@ -35,6 +35,15 @@
 #define xzalloc_array(_type, _num) \
     ((_type *)_xzalloc_array(sizeof(_type), __alignof__(_type), _num))
 
+/* Allocate space for a structure with a flexible array of typed objects. */
+#define xmalloc_flex_struct(type, field, nr) \
+    (type *)_xmalloc(offsetof(type, field[nr]), __alignof__(type))
+
+/* Re-allocate space for a structure with a flexible array of typed objects. */
+#define xrealloc_flex_struct(ptr, field, nr)                          \
+    (typeof(ptr))_xrealloc(ptr, offsetof(typeof(*(ptr)), field[nr]),  \
+                           __alignof__(typeof(*(ptr))))
+
 /* Allocate untyped storage. */
 #define xmalloc_bytes(_bytes) _xmalloc(_bytes, SMP_CACHE_BYTES)
 #define xzalloc_bytes(_bytes) _xzalloc(_bytes, SMP_CACHE_BYTES)
-- 
2.7.4


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