Slab allocators: consolidate code for krealloc in mm/util.c

The size of a kmalloc object is readily available via ksize().  ksize is
provided by all allocators and thus we can implement krealloc in a generic
way.

Implement krealloc in mm/util.c and drop slab specific implementations of
krealloc.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Christoph Lameter
2007-07-17 04:03:21 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent d45f39cb06
commit ef2ad80c7d
4 changed files with 34 additions and 116 deletions

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@@ -58,6 +58,40 @@ void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmemdup);
/**
* krealloc - reallocate memory. The contents will remain unchanged.
* @p: object to reallocate memory for.
* @new_size: how many bytes of memory are required.
* @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
*
* The contents of the object pointed to are preserved up to the
* lesser of the new and old sizes. If @p is %NULL, krealloc()
* behaves exactly like kmalloc(). If @size is 0 and @p is not a
* %NULL pointer, the object pointed to is freed.
*/
void *krealloc(const void *p, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags)
{
void *ret;
size_t ks;
if (unlikely(!new_size)) {
kfree(p);
return NULL;
}
ks = ksize(p);
if (ks >= new_size)
return (void *)p;
ret = kmalloc_track_caller(new_size, flags);
if (ret) {
memcpy(ret, p, min(new_size, ks));
kfree(p);
}
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(krealloc);
/*
* strndup_user - duplicate an existing string from user space
*