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