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| author | Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com> | 2006-03-26 01:37:48 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-03-26 08:56:59 -0800 |
| commit | f183323d3822dee4d7b3147a59b6e8987fe201e0 (patch) | |
| tree | f1cec982da7ae954af52584630c273976fd43127 /include/linux/mempool.h | |
| parent | 0eaae62abaa1ad1f231932b6cdd9fb1b91df6651 (diff) | |
[PATCH] 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 <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mempool.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mempool.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mempool.h b/include/linux/mempool.h index d23dbf076b5..41570ce353e 100644 --- a/include/linux/mempool.h +++ b/include/linux/mempool.h @@ -39,16 +39,22 @@ 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 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); static inline mempool_t *mempool_create_kmalloc_pool(int min_nr, size_t size) { return mempool_create(min_nr, mempool_kmalloc, mempool_kfree, (void *) size); } +static inline mempool_t *mempool_create_kzalloc_pool(int min_nr, size_t size) +{ + return mempool_create(min_nr, mempool_kzalloc, mempool_kfree, + (void *) size); +} /* * A mempool_alloc_t and mempool_free_t for a simple page allocator that |