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| author | Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> | 2008-09-11 11:17:37 (GMT) |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> | 2008-10-09 06:56:17 (GMT) |
| commit | 0a0d96b03a1f3bfd6bc3ea08008699e8e59fccd9 (patch) | |
| tree | 59cbbcb691a76121fba8d7af74d89558296d5834 /include/linux | |
| parent | 3e6053d76dcbd92b2f9f4ad5ece9bce83149523e (diff) | |
| download | linux-fsl-qoriq-0a0d96b03a1f3bfd6bc3ea08008699e8e59fccd9.tar.xz | |
block: add bio_kmalloc()
Not all callers need (or want!) the mempool backing guarentee, it
essentially means that you can only use bio_alloc() for short allocations
and not for preallocating some bio's at setup or init time.
So add bio_kmalloc() which does the same thing as bio_alloc(), except
it just uses kmalloc() as the backing instead of the bio mempools.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/bio.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h index 7af373f..6520ee1 100644 --- a/include/linux/bio.h +++ b/include/linux/bio.h @@ -308,6 +308,7 @@ extern struct bio_set *bioset_create(int, int); extern void bioset_free(struct bio_set *); extern struct bio *bio_alloc(gfp_t, int); +extern struct bio *bio_kmalloc(gfp_t, int); extern struct bio *bio_alloc_bioset(gfp_t, int, struct bio_set *); extern void bio_put(struct bio *); extern void bio_free(struct bio *, struct bio_set *); |