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author | Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com> | 2006-03-26 01:37:46 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-03-26 08:56:59 -0800 |
commit | 53184082b070dfb077218828fdf839826102ed96 (patch) | |
tree | 77aad868cb43b78195e7ca657c1e30a6934fac44 /mm | |
parent | a19b27ce3847c3a5d4ea6b6c91b6f7154759af23 (diff) | |
download | lwn-53184082b070dfb077218828fdf839826102ed96.tar.gz lwn-53184082b070dfb077218828fdf839826102ed96.zip |
[PATCH] mempool: add kmalloc allocator
Add another allocator to the common mempool code: a kmalloc/kfree allocator
This will be used by the next patch in the series to replace duplicate
mempool-backed kmalloc allocators in several places in the kernel. It is also
very likely that there will be more users in the future.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/mempool.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mempool.c b/mm/mempool.c index 45c0112ca7b2..a1397c6a4864 100644 --- a/mm/mempool.c +++ b/mm/mempool.c @@ -291,6 +291,23 @@ void mempool_free_slab(void *element, void *pool_data) EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_free_slab); /* + * A commonly used alloc and free fn that kmalloc/kfrees the amount of memory + * specfied by pool_data + */ +void *mempool_kmalloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data) +{ + size_t size = (size_t) pool_data; + return kmalloc(size, gfp_mask); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_kmalloc); + +void mempool_kfree(void *element, void *pool_data) +{ + kfree(element); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_kfree); + +/* * A simple mempool-backed page allocator that allocates pages * of the order specified by pool_data. */ |