[PATCH] mempool: add kzalloc allocator

Add another allocator to the common mempool code: a kzalloc/kfree allocator

This will be used by the next patch in the series to replace a mempool-backed
kzalloc allocator.  It is also very likely that there will be more users in
the future.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/mempool.c b/mm/mempool.c
index a1397c6a4864..7bf064e6a345 100644
--- a/mm/mempool.c
+++ b/mm/mempool.c
@@ -296,11 +296,18 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_free_slab);
  */
 void *mempool_kmalloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data)
 {
-	size_t size = (size_t) pool_data;
+	size_t size = (size_t)(long)pool_data;
 	return kmalloc(size, gfp_mask);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_kmalloc);
 
+void *mempool_kzalloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data)
+{
+	size_t size = (size_t) pool_data;
+	return kzalloc(size, gfp_mask);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_kzalloc);
+
 void mempool_kfree(void *element, void *pool_data)
 {
 	kfree(element);