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authorSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2012-02-19 06:16:15 +0000
committerSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2012-02-19 06:16:15 +0000
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tree3b64ac3aa4603539b8f8f384bc39998e29948900 /libdde_linux26/contrib/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 source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License,
+ * Version 2. See the file COPYING for more details.
+ */
+
+
+/*
+ * General purpose special memory pool descriptor.
+ */
+struct gen_pool {
+ rwlock_t lock;
+ struct list_head chunks; /* list of chunks in this pool */
+ int min_alloc_order; /* minimum allocation order */
+};
+
+/*
+ * General purpose special memory pool chunk descriptor.
+ */
+struct gen_pool_chunk {
+ spinlock_t lock;
+ struct list_head next_chunk; /* next chunk in pool */
+ unsigned long start_addr; /* starting address of memory chunk */
+ unsigned long end_addr; /* ending address of memory chunk */
+ unsigned long bits[0]; /* bitmap for allocating memory chunk */
+};
+
+extern struct gen_pool *gen_pool_create(int, int);
+extern int gen_pool_add(struct gen_pool *, unsigned long, size_t, int);
+extern void gen_pool_destroy(struct gen_pool *);
+extern unsigned long gen_pool_alloc(struct gen_pool *, size_t);
+extern void gen_pool_free(struct gen_pool *, unsigned long, size_t);