[patch 5/6] Create and Use common mempool allocators

[Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>]

plain text document attachment (mempool-add_kzalloc_allocator.patch)
From: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
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 <colpatch@us.ibm.com>

 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);

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