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@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ variable sized units. The directives provided by the region manager are:
- rtems_region_resize_segment_ - Change size of a segment
+- rtems_region_get_information_ - Get region information
+
+- rtems_region_get_free_information_ - Get region free information
+
Background
==========
@@ -668,3 +672,103 @@ NOTES:
may want to allocate a new segment of the desired size, copy the contents
of the original segment to the new, larger segment and then return the
original segment.
+
+.. raw:: latex
+
+ \clearpage
+
+.. index:: obtain region information
+.. index:: rtems_region_get_information
+
+.. _rtems_region_get_information:
+
+REGION_GET_INFORMATION - Get region information
+-----------------------------------------------
+
+CALLING SEQUENCE:
+ .. code-block:: c
+
+ rtems_status_code rtems_region_get_information(
+ rtems_id id,
+ Heap_Information_block *the_info
+ );
+
+DIRECTIVE STATUS CODES:
+ .. list-table::
+ :class: rtems-table
+
+ * - ``RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL``
+ - information obtained successfully
+ * - ``RTEMS_INVALID_ADDRESS``
+ - ``the_info`` is NULL
+ * - ``RTEMS_INVALID_ID``
+ - invalid region id
+
+DESCRIPTION:
+ This directive is used to obtain information about the used and free memory
+ in the region specified by ``id``. This is a snapshot at the time
+ of the call. The information will be returned in the structure pointed to
+ by ``the_info``.
+
+NOTES:
+ This directive will obtain the allocator mutex and may cause the calling
+ task to be preempted.
+
+ This is primarily intended as a mechanism to obtain a diagnostic information.
+ This method forms am O(n) scan of the free and an O(n) scan of the
+ used blocks in the region to calculate the information provided. Given that
+ the execution time is driven by the number of used and free blocks, it can
+ take a non-deterministic time to execute.
+
+.. raw:: latex
+
+ \clearpage
+
+.. index:: obtain region information on free blocks
+.. index:: rtems_region_get_free_information
+
+.. _rtems_region_get_free_information:
+
+REGION_GET_FREE_INFORMATION - Get region free information
+---------------------------------------------------------
+
+CALLING SEQUENCE:
+ .. code-block:: c
+
+ rtems_status_code rtems_region_get_free_information(
+ rtems_id id,
+ Heap_Information_block *the_info
+ );
+
+DIRECTIVE STATUS CODES:
+ .. list-table::
+ :class: rtems-table
+
+ * - ``RTEMS_SUCCESSFUL``
+ - information obtained successfully
+ * - ``RTEMS_INVALID_ADDRESS``
+ - ``the_info`` is NULL
+ * - ``RTEMS_INVALID_ID``
+ - invalid region id
+
+DESCRIPTION:
+ This directive is used to obtain information about the free memory
+ in the region specified by ``id``. This is a snapshot at the time
+ of the call. The information will be returned in the structure pointed to
+ by ``the_info``.
+
+NOTES:
+ This directive will obtain the allocator mutex and may cause the calling
+ task to be preempted.
+
+ This uses the same structure to return information as the
+ ``rtems_region_get_information`` directive but does not fill in the
+ used information.
+
+ This is primarily intended as a mechanism to obtain a diagnostic information.
+ This method forms am O(n) scan of the free in the region to calculate
+ the information provided. Given that the execution time is driven by
+ the number of used and free blocks, it can take a non-deterministic
+ time to execute. Typically, there are many used blocks and a much smaller
+ number of used blocks making a call to this directive less expensive than
+ a call to ``rtems_region_get_information``.