VideoPortAllocateContiguousMemory function (video.h)

The VideoPortAllocateContiguousMemory function is obsolete in Windows 2000 and later. Video miniport drivers should use VideoPortAllocateCommonBuffer in its place.

VideoPortAllocateContiguousMemory allocates a range of physically contiguous, cache-aligned memory from the nonpaged pool.

Syntax

VIDEOPORT_DEPRECATED VIDEOPORT_API PVOID VideoPortAllocateContiguousMemory(
  [in] IN PVOID            HwDeviceExtension,
  [in] IN ULONG            NumberOfBytes,
  [in] IN PHYSICAL_ADDRESS HighestAcceptableAddress
);

Parameters

[in] HwDeviceExtension

Pointer to the miniport driver's device extension.

[in] NumberOfBytes

Specifies the size in bytes of the block of contiguous memory to be allocated.

[in] HighestAcceptableAddress

Specifies the highest valid physical address the miniport driver can use. For example, if a device can only reference physical memory in the lower 16MB, this value would be set to 0x00000000FFFFFF.

Return value

VideoPortAllocateContiguousMemory returns the base virtual address for the allocated memory, if the call is successful. If the request cannot be satisfied, NULL is returned.

Remarks

VideoPortAllocateContiguousMemory can be called to allocate a contiguous block of physical memory for a long-term internal buffer.

A miniport driver that must use contiguous memory should allocate only what it needs during driver initialization because nonpaged pool is likely to become fragmented as the system runs. If the miniport driver is unloaded, it must deallocate the memory. Contiguous allocations are aligned on an integral multiple of the processor's data-cache-line size to prevent cache and coherency problems.

Requirements

See also

VideoPortAllocateBuffer