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-rw-r--r--include/linux/bitmap.h8
-rw-r--r--lib/bitmap.c20
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/bitmap.h b/include/linux/bitmap.h
index 714ce4a5e31f..39d47af6ca7b 100644
--- a/include/linux/bitmap.h
+++ b/include/linux/bitmap.h
@@ -84,6 +84,14 @@
*/
/*
+ * 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 814814397cce..bdf572d09b8f 100644
--- a/lib/bitmap.c
+++ b/lib/bitmap.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
#include <linux/bitmap.h>
#include <linux/bitops.h>
#include <linux/bug.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -1081,3 +1082,22 @@ 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);