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authorChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>2007-07-17 15:03:21 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-17 21:23:01 +0400
commitef2ad80c7d255ed0449eda947c2d700635b7e0f5 (patch)
treebc44916bdb25de29c8211566a4b5a1c041fa8ab6 /mm/slab.c
parentd45f39cb06610ea456e1d689149b9becacda8b40 (diff)
downloadlinux-ef2ad80c7d255ed0449eda947c2d700635b7e0f5.tar.xz
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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diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index a453383333fc..4bd8a53091b7 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -3726,52 +3726,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kmalloc);
#endif
/**
- * 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)
-{
- struct kmem_cache *cache, *new_cache;
- void *ret;
-
- if (unlikely(!p))
- return kmalloc_track_caller(new_size, flags);
-
- if (unlikely(!new_size)) {
- kfree(p);
- return NULL;
- }
-
- cache = virt_to_cache(p);
- new_cache = __find_general_cachep(new_size, flags);
-
- /*
- * If new size fits in the current cache, bail out.
- */
- if (likely(cache == new_cache))
- return (void *)p;
-
- /*
- * We are on the slow-path here so do not use __cache_alloc
- * because it bloats kernel text.
- */
- ret = kmalloc_track_caller(new_size, flags);
- if (ret) {
- memcpy(ret, p, min(new_size, ksize(p)));
- kfree(p);
- }
- return ret;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(krealloc);
-
-/**
* kmem_cache_free - Deallocate an object
* @cachep: The cache the allocation was from.
* @objp: The previously allocated object.