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-rw-r--r--include/linux/idr.h2
-rw-r--r--lib/idr.c27
2 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/idr.h b/include/linux/idr.h
index 2640c7e..a470ac3 100644
--- a/include/linux/idr.h
+++ b/include/linux/idr.h
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ struct idr {
struct idr_layer *id_free;
int layers; /* only valid w/o concurrent changes */
int id_free_cnt;
+ int cur; /* current pos for cyclic allocation */
spinlock_t lock;
};
@@ -75,6 +76,7 @@ struct idr {
void *idr_find_slowpath(struct idr *idp, int id);
void idr_preload(gfp_t gfp_mask);
int idr_alloc(struct idr *idp, void *ptr, int start, int end, gfp_t gfp_mask);
+int idr_alloc_cyclic(struct idr *idr, void *ptr, int start, int end, gfp_t gfp_mask);
int idr_for_each(struct idr *idp,
int (*fn)(int id, void *p, void *data), void *data);
void *idr_get_next(struct idr *idp, int *nextid);
diff --git a/lib/idr.c b/lib/idr.c
index 322e281..cca4b93 100644
--- a/lib/idr.c
+++ b/lib/idr.c
@@ -495,6 +495,33 @@ int idr_alloc(struct idr *idr, void *ptr, int start, int end, gfp_t gfp_mask)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(idr_alloc);
+/**
+ * idr_alloc_cyclic - allocate new idr entry in a cyclical fashion
+ * @idr: the (initialized) idr
+ * @ptr: pointer to be associated with the new id
+ * @start: the minimum id (inclusive)
+ * @end: the maximum id (exclusive, <= 0 for max)
+ * @gfp_mask: memory allocation flags
+ *
+ * Essentially the same as idr_alloc, but prefers to allocate progressively
+ * higher ids if it can. If the "cur" counter wraps, then it will start again
+ * at the "start" end of the range and allocate one that has already been used.
+ */
+int idr_alloc_cyclic(struct idr *idr, void *ptr, int start, int end,
+ gfp_t gfp_mask)
+{
+ int id;
+
+ id = idr_alloc(idr, ptr, max(start, idr->cur), end, gfp_mask);
+ if (id == -ENOSPC)
+ id = idr_alloc(idr, ptr, start, end, gfp_mask);
+
+ if (likely(id >= 0))
+ idr->cur = id + 1;
+ return id;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(idr_alloc_cyclic);
+
static void idr_remove_warning(int id)
{
printk(KERN_WARNING
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