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/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 *
 * memutils.h
 *	  This file contains declarations for memory allocation utility
 *	  functions.  These are functions that are not quite widely used
 *	  enough to justify going in utils/palloc.h, but are still part
 *	  of the API of the memory management subsystem.
 *
 *
 * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2012, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
 * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
 *
 * src/include/utils/memutils.h
 *
 *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 */
#ifndef MEMUTILS_H
#define MEMUTILS_H

#include "nodes/memnodes.h"


/*
 * MaxAllocSize
 *		Quasi-arbitrary limit on size of allocations.
 *
 * Note:
 *		There is no guarantee that allocations smaller than MaxAllocSize
 *		will succeed.  Allocation requests larger than MaxAllocSize will
 *		be summarily denied.
 *
 * XXX This is deliberately chosen to correspond to the limiting size
 * of varlena objects under TOAST.	See VARSIZE_4B() and related macros
 * in postgres.h.  Many datatypes assume that any allocatable size can
 * be represented in a varlena header.
 *
 * XXX Also, various places in aset.c assume they can compute twice an
 * allocation's size without overflow, so beware of raising this.
 */
#define MaxAllocSize	((Size) 0x3fffffff)		/* 1 gigabyte - 1 */

#define AllocSizeIsValid(size)	((Size) (size) <= MaxAllocSize)

/*
 * All chunks allocated by any memory context manager are required to be
 * preceded by a StandardChunkHeader at a spacing of STANDARDCHUNKHEADERSIZE.
 * A currently-allocated chunk must contain a backpointer to its owning
 * context as well as the allocated size of the chunk.	The backpointer is
 * used by pfree() and repalloc() to find the context to call.	The allocated
 * size is not absolutely essential, but it's expected to be needed by any
 * reasonable implementation.
 */
typedef struct StandardChunkHeader
{
	MemoryContext context;		/* owning context */
	Size		size;			/* size of data space allocated in chunk */
#ifdef MEMORY_CONTEXT_CHECKING
	/* when debugging memory usage, also store actual requested size */
	Size		requested_size;
#endif
} StandardChunkHeader;

#define STANDARDCHUNKHEADERSIZE  MAXALIGN(sizeof(StandardChunkHeader))


/*
 * Standard top-level memory contexts.
 *
 * Only TopMemoryContext and ErrorContext are initialized by
 * MemoryContextInit() itself.
 */
extern PGDLLIMPORT MemoryContext TopMemoryContext;
extern PGDLLIMPORT MemoryContext ErrorContext;
extern PGDLLIMPORT MemoryContext PostmasterContext;
extern PGDLLIMPORT MemoryContext CacheMemoryContext;
extern PGDLLIMPORT MemoryContext MessageContext;
extern PGDLLIMPORT MemoryContext TopTransactionContext;
extern PGDLLIMPORT MemoryContext CurTransactionContext;

/* This is a transient link to the active portal's memory context: */
extern PGDLLIMPORT MemoryContext PortalContext;


/*
 * Memory-context-type-independent functions in mcxt.c
 */
extern void MemoryContextInit(void);
extern void MemoryContextReset(MemoryContext context);
extern void MemoryContextDelete(MemoryContext context);
extern void MemoryContextResetChildren(MemoryContext context);
extern void MemoryContextDeleteChildren(MemoryContext context);
extern void MemoryContextResetAndDeleteChildren(MemoryContext context);
extern void MemoryContextSetParent(MemoryContext context,
					   MemoryContext new_parent);
extern Size GetMemoryChunkSpace(void *pointer);
extern MemoryContext GetMemoryChunkContext(void *pointer);
extern MemoryContext MemoryContextGetParent(MemoryContext context);
extern bool MemoryContextIsEmpty(MemoryContext context);
extern void MemoryContextStats(MemoryContext context);

#ifdef MEMORY_CONTEXT_CHECKING
extern void MemoryContextCheck(MemoryContext context);
#endif
extern bool MemoryContextContains(MemoryContext context, void *pointer);

/*
 * This routine handles the context-type-independent part of memory
 * context creation.  It's intended to be called from context-type-
 * specific creation routines, and noplace else.
 */
extern MemoryContext MemoryContextCreate(NodeTag tag, Size size,
					MemoryContextMethods *methods,
					MemoryContext parent,
					const char *name);


/*
 * Memory-context-type-specific functions
 */

/* aset.c */
extern MemoryContext AllocSetContextCreate(MemoryContext parent,
					  const char *name,
					  Size minContextSize,
					  Size initBlockSize,
					  Size maxBlockSize);

/*
 * Recommended default alloc parameters, suitable for "ordinary" contexts
 * that might hold quite a lot of data.
 */
#define ALLOCSET_DEFAULT_MINSIZE   0
#define ALLOCSET_DEFAULT_INITSIZE  (8 * 1024)
#define ALLOCSET_DEFAULT_MAXSIZE   (8 * 1024 * 1024)

/*
 * Recommended alloc parameters for "small" contexts that are not expected
 * to contain much data (for example, a context to contain a query plan).
 */
#define ALLOCSET_SMALL_MINSIZE	 0
#define ALLOCSET_SMALL_INITSIZE  (1 * 1024)
#define ALLOCSET_SMALL_MAXSIZE	 (8 * 1024)

#endif   /* MEMUTILS_H */