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Commit ca279cf1 authored by Benjamin Gaignard's avatar Benjamin Gaignard Committed by Linus Torvalds
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genalloc: make it possible to use a custom allocation algorithm

Premit use of another algorithm than the default first-fit one.  For
example a custom algorithm could be used to manage alignment requirements.

As I can't predict all the possible requirements/needs for all allocation
uses cases, I add a "free" field 'void *data' to pass any needed
information to the allocation function.  For example 'data' could be used
to handle a structure where you store the alignment, the expected memory
bank, the requester device, or any information that could influence the
allocation algorithm.

An usage example may look like this:
struct my_pool_constraints {
	int align;
	int bank;
	...
};

unsigned long my_custom_algo(unsigned long *map, unsigned long size,
		unsigned long start, unsigned int nr, void *data)
{
	struct my_pool_constraints *constraints = data;
	...
	deal with allocation contraints
	...
	return the index in bitmap where perform the allocation
}

void create_my_pool()
{
	struct my_pool_constraints c;
	s...
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