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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/slab.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/slab.h | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h index a9befa50d3e3..e14b4c338b89 100644 --- a/include/linux/slab.h +++ b/include/linux/slab.h @@ -57,6 +57,18 @@ unsigned int kmem_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *); const char *kmem_cache_name(struct kmem_cache *); int kmem_ptr_validate(struct kmem_cache *cachep, const void *ptr); +/* + * Please use this macro to create slab caches. Simply specify the + * name of the structure and maybe some flags that are listed above. + * + * The alignment of the struct determines object alignment. If you + * f.e. add ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp to the struct declaration + * then the objects will be properly aligned in SMP configurations. + */ +#define KMEM_CACHE(__struct, __flags) kmem_cache_create(#__struct,\ + sizeof(struct __struct), __alignof__(struct __struct),\ + (__flags), NULL, NULL) + #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA extern void *kmem_cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *, gfp_t flags, int node); #else |