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. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/bitmap.h | 8 ++++++++ lib/bitmap.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+) 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 @@ -104,6 +104,14 @@ * contain all bit positions from 0 to 'bits' - 1. */ +/* + * 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: */ diff --git a/lib/bitmap.c b/lib/bitmap.c index 33e95cd359a2..09acf2fd6a35 100644 --- a/lib/bitmap.c +++ b/lib/bitmap.c @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ #include <linux/bitops.h> #include <linux/bug.h> #include <linux/kernel.h> +#include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/string.h> #include <linux/uaccess.h> @@ -1125,6 +1126,24 @@ void bitmap_copy_le(unsigned long *dst, const unsigned long *src, unsigned int n EXPORT_SYMBOL(bitmap_copy_le); #endif +unsigned long *bitmap_alloc(unsigned int nbits, gfp_t flags) +{ + return kmalloc_array(BITS_TO_LONGS(nbits), sizeof(unsigned long), flags); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(bitmap_alloc); + +unsigned long *bitmap_zalloc(unsigned int nbits, gfp_t flags) +{ + return bitmap_alloc(nbits, flags | __GFP_ZERO); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(bitmap_zalloc); + +void bitmap_free(const unsigned long *bitmap) +{ + kfree(bitmap); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(bitmap_free); + #if BITS_PER_LONG == 64 /** * bitmap_from_arr32 - copy the contents of u32 array of bits to bitmap -- 2.17.1 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel