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authorAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>2018-08-02 01:42:56 +0300
committerDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>2018-08-02 01:49:40 +0300
commitc42b65e363ce97a828f81b59033c3558f8fa7f70 (patch)
treed664c268ae9a49f22b22a2de4d0a56d7925a1bd5 /include
parente64e4018d572710c44f42c923d4ac059f0a23320 (diff)
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bitmap: Add bitmap_alloc(), bitmap_zalloc() and bitmap_free()
A lot of code become ugly because of open coding allocations for bitmaps. Introduce three helpers to allow users be more clear of intention and keep their code neat. Note, due to multiple circular dependencies we may not provide the helpers as inliners. For now we keep them exported and, perhaps, at some point in the future we will sort out header inclusion and inheritance. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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-rw-r--r--include/linux/bitmap.h8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/bitmap.h b/include/linux/bitmap.h
index 1ee46f492267..acf5e8df3504 100644
--- a/include/linux/bitmap.h
+++ b/include/linux/bitmap.h
@@ -105,6 +105,14 @@
*/
/*
+ * Allocation and deallocation of bitmap.
+ * Provided in lib/bitmap.c to avoid circular dependency.
+ */
+extern unsigned long *bitmap_alloc(unsigned int nbits, gfp_t flags);
+extern unsigned long *bitmap_zalloc(unsigned int nbits, gfp_t flags);
+extern void bitmap_free(const unsigned long *bitmap);
+
+/*
* lib/bitmap.c provides these functions:
*/