[RTEMS Project] #4032: Make deferred free in malloc() support optional

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#4032: Make deferred free in malloc() support optional
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  Reporter:  Sebastian Huber  |      Owner:  Sebastian Huber
      Type:  enhancement      |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  normal           |  Milestone:  6.1
 Component:  lib              |    Version:  6
  Severity:  normal           |   Keywords:
Blocked By:                   |   Blocking:
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 The free() implementation in RTEMS supports that allocated memory is freed
 in interrupt context. Since the heap is protected by a mutex, the frees
 issued in interrupt context cannot immediately be freed to the heap,
 instead they are placed on a deferred free list. This list is emptied by
 the core allocation function rtems_heap_allocate_aligned_with_boundary().
 This adds a dependency to free() in
 rtems_heap_allocate_aligned_with_boundary(). In order to better support
 applications which only allocate memory an never free it, this dependency
 should be avoided. This can be done with a weak default implementation of
 _Malloc_Process_deferred_frees(). In the free() module a strong
 implementation can be provided.

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