[PATCH] mempool: add page allocator

This will be used by the next patch in the series to replace duplicate
mempool-backed page allocators in 2 places in the kernel.  It is also likely
that there will be more users in the future.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mempool.h b/include/linux/mempool.h
index f2427d7394b0..9787572e0ae7 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 */