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+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+ * Copyright 2020 Mellanox Technologies, Ltd
+ */
+
+#ifndef RTE_PMD_MLX5_COMMON_OS_H_
+#define RTE_PMD_MLX5_COMMON_OS_H_
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+#include "mlx5_autoconf.h"
+#include "mlx5_glue.h"
+#include "mlx5_malloc.h"
+
+/**
+ * This API allocates aligned or non-aligned memory. The free can be on either
+ * aligned or nonaligned memory. To be protected - even though there may be no
+ * alignment - in Windows this API will unconditioanlly call _aligned_malloc()
+ * with at least a minimal alignment size.
+ *
+ * @param[in] align
+ * The alignment value, which must be an integer power of 2 (or 0 for
+ * non-alignment)
+ * @param[in] size
+ * Size in bytes to allocate
+ *
+ * @return
+ * Valid pointer to allocated memory, NULL in case of failure
+ */
+static inline void *
+mlx5_os_malloc(size_t align, size_t size)
+{
+ if (align < MLX5_MALLOC_ALIGNMENT)
+ align = MLX5_MALLOC_ALIGNMENT;
+ return _aligned_malloc(size, align);
+}
+
+/**
+ * This API de-allocates a memory that originally could have been allocated
+ * aligned or non-aligned. In Windows since the allocation was with
+ * _aligned_malloc() - it is safe to always call _aligned_free().
+ *
+ * @param[in] addr
+ * Pointer to address to free
+ *
+ */
+static inline void
+mlx5_os_free(void *addr)
+{
+ _aligned_free(addr);
+}
+#endif /* RTE_PMD_MLX5_COMMON_OS_H_ */