In this installment, the author describes the various techniques used for memory management in an embedded OS. Adapted from “Embedded Systems Architecture, 2nd Edition” by Tammy Noergaard (Newnes) 9.3 ...

Whenever MeMS requests memory from the OS (using mmap), it adds a new node to the main chain. Each node of the main chain points to another doubly linked list which we call as sub-chain. This ...