* @pool_data: optional private data available to the user-defined functions.
*
* this function creates and allocates a guaranteed size, preallocated
- * memory pool. The pool can be used from the mempool_alloc and mempool_free
+ * memory pool. The pool can be used from the mempool_alloc() and mempool_free()
* functions. This function might sleep. Both the alloc_fn() and the free_fn()
- * functions might sleep - as long as the mempool_alloc function is not called
+ * functions might sleep - as long as the mempool_alloc() function is not called
* from IRQ contexts.
*/
mempool_t *mempool_create(int min_nr, mempool_alloc_t *alloc_fn,
*/
void mempool_destroy(mempool_t *pool)
{
- if (pool->curr_nr != pool->min_nr)
- BUG(); /* There were outstanding elements */
+ /* Check for outstanding elements */
+ BUG_ON(pool->curr_nr != pool->min_nr);
free_pool(pool);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_destroy);
* mempool_create().
* @gfp_mask: the usual allocation bitmask.
*
- * this function only sleeps if the alloc_fn function sleeps or
+ * this function only sleeps if the alloc_fn() function sleeps or
* returns NULL. Note that due to preallocation, this function
* *never* fails when called from process contexts. (it might
* fail if called from an IRQ context.)
init_wait(&wait);
prepare_to_wait(&pool->wait, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
smp_mb();
- if (!pool->curr_nr)
- io_schedule();
+ if (!pool->curr_nr) {
+ /*
+ * FIXME: this should be io_schedule(). The timeout is there
+ * as a workaround for some DM problems in 2.6.18.
+ */
+ io_schedule_timeout(5*HZ);
+ }
finish_wait(&pool->wait, &wait);
goto repeat_alloc;
kmem_cache_free(mem, element);
}
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)(long)pool_data;
+ return kmalloc(size, gfp_mask);
+}
+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);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_kfree);
+
+/*
+ * A simple mempool-backed page allocator that allocates pages
+ * of the order specified by pool_data.
+ */
+void *mempool_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data)
+{
+ int order = (int)(long)pool_data;
+ return alloc_pages(gfp_mask, order);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_alloc_pages);
+
+void mempool_free_pages(void *element, void *pool_data)
+{
+ int order = (int)(long)pool_data;
+ __free_pages(element, order);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_free_pages);