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yaml --- r: 24074 b: refs/heads/master c: 5318408 h: refs/heads/master v: v3
git-mirror · Mar 26, 2006 · 77ae0e0 · 77ae0e0
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@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: a19b27ce3847c3a5d4ea6b6c91b6f7154759af23
+refs/heads/master: 53184082b070dfb077218828fdf839826102ed96
diff --git a/trunk/include/linux/mempool.h b/trunk/include/linux/mempool.h
@@ -38,6 +38,18 @@ 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 to kmalloc the amount of memory
+ * specified by pool_data
+ */
+void *mempool_kmalloc(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);
+}
+
 /*
  * A mempool_alloc_t and mempool_free_t for a simple page allocator that
  * allocates pages of the order specified by pool_data

diff --git a/trunk/mm/mempool.c b/trunk/mm/mempool.c
@@ -290,6 +290,23 @@ 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.