[PATCH] mempool: add kmalloc allocator

[powerpc.git] / mm / mempool.c

diff --git a/mm/mempool.c b/mm/mempool.c
index 45c0112..a1397c6 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/mempool.c
+++ b/mm/mempool.c
@@ -290,6 +290,23 @@ void mempool_free_slab(void *element, void *pool_data)
 }
 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) pool_data;
+       return kmalloc(size, gfp_mask);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_kmalloc);
+
+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.