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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2018
Applicant:
Amlogic (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai, CN;
Inventor:
Tao Zeng, Shanghai, CN;
Assignee:
AMLOGIC (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD., Shanghai, CN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/023 (2013.01); G06F 12/0223 (2013.01); G06F 12/0238 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1044 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for releasing memory allocated by a contiguous memory allocator that merges a to-be-released memory page with an adjacent free page to form a memory block that can be released more efficiently than would be the case when releasing a series of un-merged memory pages.