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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2009-08-14 14:41:02 +0900
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2009-08-14 14:45:31 +0900
commit384be2b18a5f9475eab9ca2bdfa95cc1a04ef59c (patch)
tree04c93f391a1b65c8bf8d7ba8643c07d26c26590a /include/linux/flex_array.h
parenta76761b621bcd8336065c4fe3a74f046858bc34c (diff)
parent142d44b0dd6741a64a7bdbe029110e7c1dcf1d23 (diff)
Merge branch 'percpu-for-linus' into percpu-for-next
Conflicts: arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c mm/percpu.c Conflicts in core and arch percpu codes are mostly from commit ed78e1e078dd44249f88b1dd8c76dafb39567161 which substituted many num_possible_cpus() with nr_cpu_ids. As for-next branch has moved all the first chunk allocators into mm/percpu.c, the changes are moved from arch code to mm/percpu.c. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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+#ifndef _FLEX_ARRAY_H
+#define _FLEX_ARRAY_H
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <asm/page.h>
+
+#define FLEX_ARRAY_PART_SIZE PAGE_SIZE
+#define FLEX_ARRAY_BASE_SIZE PAGE_SIZE
+
+struct flex_array_part;
+
+/*
+ * This is meant to replace cases where an array-like
+ * structure has gotten too big to fit into kmalloc()
+ * and the developer is getting tempted to use
+ * vmalloc().
+ */
+
+struct flex_array {
+ union {
+ struct {
+ int element_size;
+ int total_nr_elements;
+ struct flex_array_part *parts[0];
+ };
+ /*
+ * This little trick makes sure that
+ * sizeof(flex_array) == PAGE_SIZE
+ */
+ char padding[FLEX_ARRAY_BASE_SIZE];
+ };
+};
+
+#define FLEX_ARRAY_INIT(size, total) { { {\
+ .element_size = (size), \
+ .total_nr_elements = (total), \
+} } }
+
+struct flex_array *flex_array_alloc(int element_size, int total, gfp_t flags);
+int flex_array_prealloc(struct flex_array *fa, int start, int end, gfp_t flags);
+void flex_array_free(struct flex_array *fa);
+void flex_array_free_parts(struct flex_array *fa);
+int flex_array_put(struct flex_array *fa, int element_nr, void *src,
+ gfp_t flags);
+void *flex_array_get(struct flex_array *fa, int element_nr);
+
+#endif /* _FLEX_ARRAY_H */