slab: introduce krealloc

This introduce krealloc() that reallocates memory while keeping the contents
unchanged.  The allocator avoids reallocation if the new size fits the
currently used cache.  I also added a simple non-optimized version for
mm/slob.c for compatibility.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
Acked-by: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 48 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 168bfe9d8ffe..8b71a9c3daa4 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -3740,6 +3740,53 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kmalloc);
 #endif
 
 /**
+ * krealloc - reallocate memory. The contents will remain unchanged.
+ *
+ * @p: object to reallocate memory for.
+ * @new_size: how many bytes of memory are required.
+ * @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
+ *
+ * The contents of the object pointed to are preserved up to the
+ * lesser of the new and old sizes.  If @p is %NULL, krealloc()
+ * behaves exactly like kmalloc().  If @size is 0 and @p is not a
+ * %NULL pointer, the object pointed to is freed.
+ */
+void *krealloc(const void *p, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags)
+{
+	struct kmem_cache *cache, *new_cache;
+	void *ret;
+
+	if (unlikely(!p))
+		return kmalloc_track_caller(new_size, flags);
+
+	if (unlikely(!new_size)) {
+		kfree(p);
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	cache = virt_to_cache(p);
+	new_cache = __find_general_cachep(new_size, flags);
+
+	/*
+ 	 * If new size fits in the current cache, bail out.
+ 	 */
+	if (likely(cache == new_cache))
+		return (void *)p;
+
+	/*
+ 	 * We are on the slow-path here so do not use __cache_alloc
+ 	 * because it bloats kernel text.
+ 	 */
+	ret = kmalloc_track_caller(new_size, flags);
+	if (ret) {
+		memcpy(ret, p, min(new_size, ksize(p)));
+		kfree(p);
+	}
+	return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(krealloc);
+
+/**
  * kmem_cache_free - Deallocate an object
  * @cachep: The cache the allocation was from.
  * @objp: The previously allocated object.
@@ -4481,7 +4528,7 @@ const struct seq_operations slabstats_op = {
  * allocated with either kmalloc() or kmem_cache_alloc(). The object
  * must not be freed during the duration of the call.
  */
-unsigned int ksize(const void *objp)
+size_t ksize(const void *objp)
 {
 	if (unlikely(objp == NULL))
 		return 0;