[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, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/mempool.c b/mm/mempool.c
index f71893ed3543..45c0112ca7b2 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);