18.1. Introduction

The Region Manager provides facilities to dynamically allocate memory in variable sized units. The directives provided by the Region Manager are:

• rtems_region_create() - Creates a region.

• rtems_region_ident() - Identifies a region by the object name.

• rtems_region_delete() - Deletes the region.

• rtems_region_extend() - Extends the region.

• rtems_region_get_segment() - Gets a segment from the region.

• rtems_region_return_segment() - Returns the segment to the region.

• rtems_region_resize_segment() - Changes the size of the segment.

• rtems_region_get_information() - Gets the region information.

• rtems_region_get_free_information() - Gets the region free information.

• rtems_region_get_segment_size() - Gets the size of the region segment.