Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751236AbWAYXvV (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:51:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751241AbWAYXvU (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:51:20 -0500 Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.150]:42164 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751236AbWAYXvT (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:51:19 -0500 Subject: [patch 1/9] mempool - Add page allocator From: Matthew Dobson Reply-To: colpatch@us.ibm.com To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: sri@us.ibm.com, andrea@suse.de, pavel@suse.cz, linux-mm@kvack.org References: <20060125161321.647368000@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: IBM LTC Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:51:13 -0800 Message-Id: <1138233074.27293.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2180 Lines: 61 plain text document attachment (critical_mempools) Add another allocator to the common mempool code: a simple 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 very likely that there will be more users in the future. Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson include/linux/mempool.h | 6 ++++++ mm/mempool.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6.16-rc1+critical_mempools/mm/mempool.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.16-rc1+critical_mempools.orig/mm/mempool.c +++ linux-2.6.16-rc1+critical_mempools/mm/mempool.c @@ -289,3 +289,20 @@ void mempool_free_slab(void *element, vo kmem_cache_free(mem, element); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_free_slab); + +/* + * A simple mempool-backed page allocator + */ +void *mempool_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data) +{ + int order = (int)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)pool_data; + __free_pages(element, order); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_free_pages); Index: linux-2.6.16-rc1+critical_mempools/include/linux/mempool.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.16-rc1+critical_mempools.orig/include/linux/mempool.h +++ linux-2.6.16-rc1+critical_mempools/include/linux/mempool.h @@ -38,4 +38,10 @@ extern void mempool_free(void *element, 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 + */ +void *mempool_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data); +void mempool_free_pages(void *element, void *pool_data); + #endif /* _LINUX_MEMPOOL_H */ -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/