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-rw-r--r--include/linux/mempool.h12
-rw-r--r--mm/mempool.c18
2 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mempool.h b/include/linux/mempool.h
index f2427d7..9787572 100644
--- a/include/linux/mempool.h
+++ b/include/linux/mempool.h
@@ -38,4 +38,16 @@ 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 for a simple page allocator that
+ * allocates pages of the order specified by pool_data
+ */
+void *mempool_alloc_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data);
+void mempool_free_pages(void *element, void *pool_data);
+static inline mempool_t *mempool_create_page_pool(int min_nr, int order)
+{
+ return mempool_create(min_nr, mempool_alloc_pages, mempool_free_pages,
+ (void *)(long)order);
+}
+
#endif /* _LINUX_MEMPOOL_H */
diff --git a/mm/mempool.c b/mm/mempool.c
index f71893e..45c0112 100644
--- a/mm/mempool.c
+++ b/mm/mempool.c
@@ -289,3 +289,21 @@ void mempool_free_slab(void *element, void *pool_data)
kmem_cache_free(mem, element);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_free_slab);
+
+/*
+ * 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);
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