kernel-ark/include/linux/genalloc.h
Steve Wise 322acc96d4 [PATCH] LIB: add gen_pool_destroy()
Modules using the genpool allocator need to be able to destroy the data
structure when unloading.

Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-02 07:57:12 -07:00

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/*
* Basic general purpose allocator for managing special purpose memory
* not managed by the regular kmalloc/kfree interface.
* Uses for this includes on-device special memory, uncached memory
* etc.
*
* This source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License,
* Version 2. See the file COPYING for more details.
*/
/*
* General purpose special memory pool descriptor.
*/
struct gen_pool {
rwlock_t lock;
struct list_head chunks; /* list of chunks in this pool */
int min_alloc_order; /* minimum allocation order */
};
/*
* General purpose special memory pool chunk descriptor.
*/
struct gen_pool_chunk {
spinlock_t lock;
struct list_head next_chunk; /* next chunk in pool */
unsigned long start_addr; /* starting address of memory chunk */
unsigned long end_addr; /* ending address of memory chunk */
unsigned long bits[0]; /* bitmap for allocating memory chunk */
};
extern struct gen_pool *gen_pool_create(int, int);
extern int gen_pool_add(struct gen_pool *, unsigned long, size_t, int);
extern void gen_pool_destroy(struct gen_pool *);
extern unsigned long gen_pool_alloc(struct gen_pool *, size_t);
extern void gen_pool_free(struct gen_pool *, unsigned long, size_t);