resources: Add lookup_resource()

Add a function to find an existing resource by a resource start address.
This allows to implement simple allocators (with a malloc/free-alike API)
on top of the resource system.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/resource.c b/kernel/resource.c
index 3ff40178dce7..3b3cedc52592 100644
--- a/kernel/resource.c
+++ b/kernel/resource.c
@@ -553,6 +553,27 @@ int allocate_resource(struct resource *root, struct resource *new,
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(allocate_resource);
 
+/**
+ * lookup_resource - find an existing resource by a resource start address
+ * @root: root resource descriptor
+ * @start: resource start address
+ *
+ * Returns a pointer to the resource if found, NULL otherwise
+ */
+struct resource *lookup_resource(struct resource *root, resource_size_t start)
+{
+        struct resource *res;
+
+        read_lock(&resource_lock);
+        for (res = root->child; res; res = res->sibling) {
+                if (res->start == start)
+                        break;
+        }
+        read_unlock(&resource_lock);
+
+        return res;
+}
+
 /*
  * Insert a resource into the resource tree. If successful, return NULL,
  * otherwise return the conflicting resource (compare to __request_resource())