[PATCH] mempool: add 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 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>
diff --git a/include/linux/mempool.h b/include/linux/mempool.h
index f2427d7..9787572 100644
--- a/include/linux/mempool.h
+++ b/include/linux/mempool.h
@@ -38,4 +38,16 @@
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 that
+ * allocates pages of the order specified by pool_data
+ */
+void *mempool_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data);
+void mempool_free_pages(void *element, void *pool_data);
+static inline mempool_t *mempool_create_page_pool(int min_nr, int order)
+{
+ return mempool_create(min_nr, mempool_alloc_pages, mempool_free_pages,
+ (void *)(long)order);
+}
+
#endif /* _LINUX_MEMPOOL_H */