lib: Uplevel the pmem "region" ida to a global allocator

In preparation for handling platform differentiated memory types beyond
persistent memory, uplevel the "region" identifier to a global number
space. This enables a device-dax instance to be registered to any memory
type with guaranteed unique names.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Dan Williams
2019-11-06 17:43:31 -08:00
committed by Rafael J. Wysocki
parent 199c847176
commit 33dd70752c
8 changed files with 46 additions and 11 deletions

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/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
#ifndef _MEMREGION_H_
#define _MEMREGION_H_
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/errno.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMREGION
int memregion_alloc(gfp_t gfp);
void memregion_free(int id);
#else
static inline int memregion_alloc(gfp_t gfp)
{
return -ENOMEM;
}
void memregion_free(int id)
{
}
#endif
#endif /* _MEMREGION_H_ */