[PATCH] mempool: add kmalloc allocator

[powerpc.git] / include / linux / mempool.h

diff --git a/include/linux/mempool.h b/include/linux/mempool.h
index 9787572..d23dbf0 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/mempool.h
+++ b/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