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authorChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>2006-12-06 20:32:59 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>2006-12-07 08:39:23 -0800
commitebe29738f3934ad6a93c8bd76e30aa5d797a269d (patch)
treebde287ec1b33aaeaa0941eeac6bdb677eec3feb3
parentb86c089b83b8ae2bc814db865057768a9ba787b5 (diff)
[PATCH] Remove uses of kmem_cache_t from mm/* and include/linux/slab.h
Remove all uses of kmem_cache_t (the most were left in slab.h). The typedef for kmem_cache_t is then only necessary for other kernel subsystems. Add a comment to that effect. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/slab.h33
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index e67314e4a0a..b831776b2fc 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
#if defined(__KERNEL__)
+/* kmem_cache_t exists for legacy reasons and is not used by code in mm */
typedef struct kmem_cache kmem_cache_t;
#include <linux/gfp.h>
@@ -57,22 +58,23 @@ typedef struct kmem_cache kmem_cache_t;
/* prototypes */
extern void __init kmem_cache_init(void);
-extern kmem_cache_t *kmem_cache_create(const char *, size_t, size_t, unsigned long,
- void (*)(void *, kmem_cache_t *, unsigned long),
- void (*)(void *, kmem_cache_t *, unsigned long));
-extern void kmem_cache_destroy(kmem_cache_t *);
-extern int kmem_cache_shrink(kmem_cache_t *);
-extern void *kmem_cache_alloc(kmem_cache_t *, gfp_t);
+extern struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache_create(const char *, size_t, size_t,
+ unsigned long,
+ void (*)(void *, struct kmem_cache *, unsigned long),
+ void (*)(void *, struct kmem_cache *, unsigned long));
+extern void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cache *);
+extern int kmem_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cache *);
+extern void *kmem_cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *, gfp_t);
extern void *kmem_cache_zalloc(struct kmem_cache *, gfp_t);
-extern void kmem_cache_free(kmem_cache_t *, void *);
-extern unsigned int kmem_cache_size(kmem_cache_t *);
-extern const char *kmem_cache_name(kmem_cache_t *);
+extern void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *, void *);
+extern unsigned int kmem_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *);
+extern const char *kmem_cache_name(struct kmem_cache *);
/* Size description struct for general caches. */
struct cache_sizes {
- size_t cs_size;
- kmem_cache_t *cs_cachep;
- kmem_cache_t *cs_dmacachep;
+ size_t cs_size;
+ struct kmem_cache *cs_cachep;
+ struct kmem_cache *cs_dmacachep;
};
extern struct cache_sizes malloc_sizes[];
@@ -211,7 +213,7 @@ extern unsigned int ksize(const void *);
extern int slab_is_available(void);
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
-extern void *kmem_cache_alloc_node(kmem_cache_t *, gfp_t flags, int node);
+extern void *kmem_cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *, gfp_t flags, int node);
extern void *__kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node);
static inline void *kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
@@ -255,7 +257,8 @@ extern void *__kmalloc_node_track_caller(size_t, gfp_t, int, void *);
__builtin_return_address(0))
#endif
#else /* CONFIG_NUMA */
-static inline void *kmem_cache_alloc_node(kmem_cache_t *cachep, gfp_t flags, int node)
+static inline void *kmem_cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
+ gfp_t flags, int node)
{
return kmem_cache_alloc(cachep, flags);
}
@@ -269,7 +272,7 @@ static inline void *kmalloc_node(size_t size, gfp_t flags, int node)
#endif
extern int FASTCALL(kmem_cache_reap(int));
-extern int FASTCALL(kmem_ptr_validate(kmem_cache_t *cachep, void *ptr));
+extern int FASTCALL(kmem_ptr_validate(struct kmem_cache *cachep, void *ptr));
#else /* CONFIG_SLOB */