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authorYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>2015-01-09 10:27:01 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-01-13 00:24:31 +0300
commit859fc7c0cedca0f84dac471fa31e9512259e1ecd (patch)
treef2a691e4a01426aa4c44f202a409eca43e18f7c6 /net/tipc/msg.c
parent2f55c43788df7358be8c6e78ae2a3d3268e7afb6 (diff)
downloadlinux-859fc7c0cedca0f84dac471fa31e9512259e1ecd.tar.xz
tipc: cleanup core.c and core.h files
Only the works of initializing and shutting down tipc module are done in core.h and core.c files, so all stuffs which are not closely associated with the two tasks should be moved to appropriate places. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Tested-by: Tero Aho <Tero.Aho@coriant.com> Reviewed-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/net/tipc/msg.c b/net/tipc/msg.c
index a687b30a699c..35523fb6668c 100644
--- a/net/tipc/msg.c
+++ b/net/tipc/msg.c
@@ -46,6 +46,29 @@ static unsigned int align(unsigned int i)
return (i + 3) & ~3u;
}
+/**
+ * tipc_buf_acquire - creates a TIPC message buffer
+ * @size: message size (including TIPC header)
+ *
+ * Returns a new buffer with data pointers set to the specified size.
+ *
+ * NOTE: Headroom is reserved to allow prepending of a data link header.
+ * There may also be unrequested tailroom present at the buffer's end.
+ */
+struct sk_buff *tipc_buf_acquire(u32 size)
+{
+ struct sk_buff *skb;
+ unsigned int buf_size = (BUF_HEADROOM + size + 3) & ~3u;
+
+ skb = alloc_skb_fclone(buf_size, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ if (skb) {
+ skb_reserve(skb, BUF_HEADROOM);
+ skb_put(skb, size);
+ skb->next = NULL;
+ }
+ return skb;
+}
+
void tipc_msg_init(struct tipc_msg *m, u32 user, u32 type, u32 hsize,
u32 destnode)
{