Merge remote-tracking branch 'wireless-next/master' into mac80211-next

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/genalloc.c b/lib/genalloc.c
index 26cf20be72b74..dda31168844f4 100644
--- a/lib/genalloc.c
+++ b/lib/genalloc.c
@@ -313,6 +313,34 @@ retry:
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(gen_pool_alloc);
 
 /**
+ * gen_pool_dma_alloc - allocate special memory from the pool for DMA usage
+ * @pool: pool to allocate from
+ * @size: number of bytes to allocate from the pool
+ * @dma: dma-view physical address
+ *
+ * Allocate the requested number of bytes from the specified pool.
+ * Uses the pool allocation function (with first-fit algorithm by default).
+ * Can not be used in NMI handler on architectures without
+ * NMI-safe cmpxchg implementation.
+ */
+void *gen_pool_dma_alloc(struct gen_pool *pool, size_t size, dma_addr_t *dma)
+{
+	unsigned long vaddr;
+
+	if (!pool)
+		return NULL;
+
+	vaddr = gen_pool_alloc(pool, size);
+	if (!vaddr)
+		return NULL;
+
+	*dma = gen_pool_virt_to_phys(pool, vaddr);
+
+	return (void *)vaddr;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(gen_pool_dma_alloc);
+
+/**
  * gen_pool_free - free allocated special memory back to the pool
  * @pool: pool to free to
  * @addr: starting address of memory to free back to pool