Memory Management

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 Functions
• OSMemCreate()
Create a partition
• OSMemGet()
Obtaining a memory block
• OSMemPut()
Returning a memory block
• OSMemQuery()
Obtaining status of a memory partition

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Memory Control Blocks of μC/OS-II

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Memory Partition

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Multiple Memory Partitions

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 Advantages of μC/OS-II
• Disadvantages of malloc()
– Fragmentation
– Nondeterministic running time

• Advantages of μC/OS-II
– Avoidance of memory fragmentation
– Allocation and deallocation a memory block is
done in constant time

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List of Free Memory Control Blocks

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 OSMemCreate()
OSM_MEM *CommTxBuf;
INT8U CommTxPart[100][32];

void main() {
INT8U err;
OSInit();
/*…*/
CommTxBuf = OSMemCreate(CommTxPart, 100, 32, &err)
/*…*/
}

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OSMemCreate()

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OSMemCreate()

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OSMemCreate()

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 OSMemGet()
• You must not use more memory than is
available form the memory block.
• When you are done using the block, you
must return it to the proper memory
partition.
• Pseudo code
1. Return a memory block
2. OSMemFreeList should point to the next
memory block

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OSMemGet()

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 OSMemPut()
• You should note that OSMemPut() has no way
of knowing whether the memory block
returned to the partition belongs to that
partition.

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OSMemPut()

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OS_MemQuery()

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Using dynamic memory allocation

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Using dynamic memory allocation

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A blocking system call

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A blocking system call

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