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authorGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>2011-05-07 20:53:16 +0200
committerGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>2011-07-30 21:21:39 +0200
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resources: Add lookup_resource()
Add a function to find an existing resource by a resource start address. This allows to implement simple allocators (with a malloc/free-alike API) on top of the resource system. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/resource.c21
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/resource.c b/kernel/resource.c
index 3ff40178dce7..3b3cedc52592 100644
--- a/kernel/resource.c
+++ b/kernel/resource.c
@@ -553,6 +553,27 @@ int allocate_resource(struct resource *root, struct resource *new,
EXPORT_SYMBOL(allocate_resource);
+/**
+ * lookup_resource - find an existing resource by a resource start address
+ * @root: root resource descriptor
+ * @start: resource start address
+ *
+ * Returns a pointer to the resource if found, NULL otherwise
+ */
+struct resource *lookup_resource(struct resource *root, resource_size_t start)
+{
+ struct resource *res;
+
+ read_lock(&resource_lock);
+ for (res = root->child; res; res = res->sibling) {
+ if (res->start == start)
+ break;
+ }
+ read_unlock(&resource_lock);
+
+ return res;
+}
+
/*
* Insert a resource into the resource tree. If successful, return NULL,
* otherwise return the conflicting resource (compare to __request_resource())