This is a part of overall refactoring attempt to separate nic and the
core drivers.
Currently, there are 4 different flows, that contain very similar code.
These are the ts, nic, hwblocks and cb alloc/map flows. The similar
aspect of all these flows is that they all contain a central store, with
memory buffers inside, supporting the following set of operations:
- Allocate buffer and return handle
- Get buffer from the store with handle
- Put the buffer (last put releases the buffer)
- Map the buffer to the user
This patch contains a generic data structure used to implement the above
memory buffer store interface. Conversion of the existing code to use
the new data structure will follow.