ladybird/Kernel/Devices/NullDevice.h
Andreas Kling ac7ce12123 Kernel: Remove the kmalloc_eternal heap :^)
This was a premature optimization from the early days of SerenityOS.
The eternal heap was a simple bump pointer allocator over a static
byte array. My original idea was to avoid heap fragmentation and improve
data locality, but both ideas were rooted in cargo culting, not data.

We would reserve 4 MiB at boot and only ended up using ~256 KiB, wasting
the rest.

This patch replaces all kmalloc_eternal() usage by regular kmalloc().
2021-12-28 21:02:38 +01:00

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/*
* Copyright (c) 2018-2020, Andreas Kling <kling@serenityos.org>
*
* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
*/
#pragma once
#include <Kernel/Devices/CharacterDevice.h>
namespace Kernel {
class NullDevice final : public CharacterDevice {
friend class DeviceManagement;
public:
virtual ~NullDevice() override;
static NonnullRefPtr<NullDevice> must_initialize();
private:
NullDevice();
// ^CharacterDevice
virtual ErrorOr<size_t> read(OpenFileDescription&, u64, UserOrKernelBuffer&, size_t) override;
virtual ErrorOr<size_t> write(OpenFileDescription&, u64, const UserOrKernelBuffer&, size_t) override;
virtual bool can_write(const OpenFileDescription&, size_t) const override { return true; }
virtual bool can_read(const OpenFileDescription&, size_t) const override;
virtual StringView class_name() const override { return "NullDevice"sv; }
virtual bool is_seekable() const override { return true; }
};
}