padata: Generic parallelization/serialization interface

This patch introduces an interface to process data objects
in parallel. The parallelized objects return after serialization
in the same order as they were before the parallelization.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index a23da9f01803..9fd23bcc1709 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1252,4 +1252,8 @@ source "block/Kconfig"
 config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
         bool
 
+config PADATA
+        depends on SMP
+        bool
+
 source "kernel/Kconfig.locks"