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diff --git a/include/asm-ia64/uncached.h b/include/asm-ia64/uncached.h
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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Silicon Graphics, Inc.  All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * Prototypes for the uncached page allocator
+ */
+
+extern unsigned long uncached_alloc_page(int nid);
+extern void uncached_free_page(unsigned long);
diff --git a/include/linux/genalloc.h b/include/linux/genalloc.h
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+++ b/include/linux/genalloc.h
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+/*
+ * Basic general purpose allocator for managing special purpose memory
+ * not managed by the regular kmalloc/kfree interface.
+ * Uses for this includes on-device special memory, uncached memory
+ * etc.
+ *
+ * This code is based on the buddy allocator found in the sym53c8xx_2
+ * driver, adapted for general purpose use.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License,
+ * Version 2.  See the file COPYING for more details.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/spinlock.h>
+
+#define ALLOC_MIN_SHIFT		5 /* 32 bytes minimum */
+/*
+ *  Link between free memory chunks of a given size.
+ */
+struct gen_pool_link {
+	struct gen_pool_link *next;
+};
+
+/*
+ *  Memory pool descriptor.
+ */
+struct gen_pool {
+	spinlock_t lock;
+	unsigned long (*get_new_chunk)(struct gen_pool *);
+	struct gen_pool *next;
+	struct gen_pool_link *h;
+	unsigned long private;
+	int max_chunk_shift;
+};
+
+unsigned long gen_pool_alloc(struct gen_pool *poolp, int size);
+void gen_pool_free(struct gen_pool *mp, unsigned long ptr, int size);
+struct gen_pool *gen_pool_create(int nr_chunks, int max_chunk_shift,
+				 unsigned long (*fp)(struct gen_pool *),
+				 unsigned long data);