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[PATCH] mempool: add page allocator 

This will be used by the next patch in the series to replace duplicate
mempool-backed page allocators in 2 places in the kernel.  It is also 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>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Matthew Dobson 2006-03-26 01:37:44 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 8219dd5710
commit 6e0678f394
2 changed files with 30 additions and 0 deletions
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include/linux/mempool.h
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@ -38,4 +38,16 @@ extern void mempool_free(void *element, mempool_t *pool);
void *mempool_alloc_slab(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data);
void mempool_free_slab(void *element, void *pool_data);
/*
* A mempool_alloc_t and mempool_free_t for a simple page allocator that
* allocates pages of the order specified by pool_data
*/
void *mempool_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data);
void mempool_free_pages(void *element, void *pool_data);
static inline mempool_t *mempool_create_page_pool(int min_nr, int order)
{
return mempool_create(min_nr, mempool_alloc_pages, mempool_free_pages,
(void *)(long)order);
}
#endif /* _LINUX_MEMPOOL_H */

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mm/mempool.c
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@ -289,3 +289,21 @@ void mempool_free_slab(void *element, void *pool_data)
kmem_cache_free(mem, element);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_free_slab);
/*
* A simple mempool-backed page allocator that allocates pages
* of the order specified by pool_data.
*/
void *mempool_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data)
{
int order = (int)(long)pool_data;
return alloc_pages(gfp_mask, order);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_alloc_pages);
void mempool_free_pages(void *element, void *pool_data)
{
int order = (int)(long)pool_data;
__free_pages(element, order);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_free_pages);