Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422729AbWA1AVB (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:21:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422726AbWA1AUU (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:20:20 -0500 Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.152]:14011 "EHLO e34.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422728AbWA1AUC (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:20:02 -0500 Subject: [patch 5/6] Create and Use common mempool allocators From: Matthew Dobson Reply-To: colpatch@us.ibm.com To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, akpm@osdl.org References: <20060128001539.030809000@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: IBM LTC Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:19:58 -0800 Message-Id: <1138407599.26088.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2196 Lines: 60 plain text document attachment (mempool-add_kzalloc_allocator.patch) From: Matthew Dobson Subject: [patch 5/6] mempool - Add kzalloc allocator Add another allocator to the common mempool code: a kzalloc/kfree allocator This will be used by the next patch in the series to replace a mempool-backed kzalloc allocator. It is also very likely that there will be more users in the future. Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson include/linux/mempool.h | 5 +++-- mm/mempool.c | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.16-rc1-mm3+mempool_work/include/linux/mempool.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.16-rc1-mm3+mempool_work.orig/include/linux/mempool.h +++ linux-2.6.16-rc1-mm3+mempool_work/include/linux/mempool.h @@ -39,10 +39,11 @@ void *mempool_alloc_slab(gfp_t gfp_mask, void mempool_free_slab(void *element, void *pool_data); /* - * A mempool_alloc_t and mempool_free_t to kmalloc the amount of memory - * specified by pool_data + * 2 mempool_alloc_t's and a mempool_free_t to kmalloc/kzalloc and kfree + * the amount of memory specified by pool_data */ void *mempool_kmalloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data); +void *mempool_kzalloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data); void mempool_kfree(void *element, void *pool_data); /* Index: linux-2.6.16-rc1-mm3+mempool_work/mm/mempool.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.16-rc1-mm3+mempool_work.orig/mm/mempool.c +++ linux-2.6.16-rc1-mm3+mempool_work/mm/mempool.c @@ -301,6 +301,13 @@ void *mempool_kmalloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, vo } EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_kmalloc); +void *mempool_kzalloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data) +{ + size_t size = (size_t) pool_data; + return kzalloc(size, gfp_mask); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_kzalloc); + void mempool_kfree(void *element, void *pool_data) { kfree(element); -- - 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/