2 * Basic general purpose allocator for managing special purpose memory
3 * not managed by the regular kmalloc/kfree interface.
4 * Uses for this includes on-device special memory, uncached memory
7 * This source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License,
8 * Version 2. See the file COPYING for more details.
13 * General purpose special memory pool descriptor.
17 struct list_head chunks; /* list of chunks in this pool */
18 int min_alloc_order; /* minimum allocation order */
22 * General purpose special memory pool chunk descriptor.
24 struct gen_pool_chunk {
26 struct list_head next_chunk; /* next chunk in pool */
27 unsigned long start_addr; /* starting address of memory chunk */
28 unsigned long end_addr; /* ending address of memory chunk */
29 unsigned long bits[0]; /* bitmap for allocating memory chunk */
32 extern struct gen_pool *gen_pool_create(int, int);
33 extern int gen_pool_add(struct gen_pool *, unsigned long, size_t, int);
34 extern unsigned long gen_pool_alloc(struct gen_pool *, size_t);
35 extern void gen_pool_free(struct gen_pool *, unsigned long, size_t);