[PATCH] mempool: add mempool_create_slab_pool()
Create a simple wrapper function for the common case of creating a slab-based
mempool.
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 41570ce..9be484d 100644
--- a/include/linux/mempool.h
+++ b/include/linux/mempool.h
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
#include <linux/wait.h>
+struct kmem_cache;
+
typedef void * (mempool_alloc_t)(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data);
typedef void (mempool_free_t)(void *element, void *pool_data);
@@ -37,6 +39,12 @@
*/
void *mempool_alloc_slab(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data);
void mempool_free_slab(void *element, void *pool_data);
+static inline mempool_t *
+mempool_create_slab_pool(int min_nr, struct kmem_cache *kc)
+{
+ return mempool_create(min_nr, mempool_alloc_slab, mempool_free_slab,
+ (void *) kc);
+}
/*
* 2 mempool_alloc_t's and a mempool_free_t to kmalloc/kzalloc and kfree