Slab allocators: consolidate code for krealloc in mm/util.c

The size of a kmalloc object is readily available via ksize().  ksize is
provided by all allocators and thus we can implement krealloc in a generic
way.

Implement krealloc in mm/util.c and drop slab specific implementations of
krealloc.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 46 deletions

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index a453383333fc..4bd8a53091b7 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -3726,52 +3726,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kmalloc);
 #endif
 
 /**
- * krealloc - reallocate memory. The contents will remain unchanged.
- * @p: object to reallocate memory for.
- * @new_size: how many bytes of memory are required.
- * @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
- *
- * The contents of the object pointed to are preserved up to the
- * lesser of the new and old sizes.  If @p is %NULL, krealloc()
- * behaves exactly like kmalloc().  If @size is 0 and @p is not a
- * %NULL pointer, the object pointed to is freed.
- */
-void *krealloc(const void *p, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags)
-{
-        struct kmem_cache *cache, *new_cache;
-        void *ret;
-
-        if (unlikely(!p))
-                return kmalloc_track_caller(new_size, flags);
-
-        if (unlikely(!new_size)) {
-                kfree(p);
-                return NULL;
-        }
-
-        cache = virt_to_cache(p);
-        new_cache = __find_general_cachep(new_size, flags);
-
-        /*
-         * If new size fits in the current cache, bail out.
-         */
-        if (likely(cache == new_cache))
-                return (void *)p;
-
-        /*
-         * We are on the slow-path here so do not use __cache_alloc
-         * because it bloats kernel text.
-         */
-        ret = kmalloc_track_caller(new_size, flags);
-        if (ret) {
-                memcpy(ret, p, min(new_size, ksize(p)));
-                kfree(p);
-        }
-        return ret;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(krealloc);
-
-/**
  * kmem_cache_free - Deallocate an object
  * @cachep: The cache the allocation was from.
  * @objp: The previously allocated object.