* @pool_data: optional private data available to the user-defined functions.
*
* this function creates and allocates a guaranteed size, preallocated
- * memory pool. The pool can be used from the mempool_alloc and mempool_free
+ * memory pool. The pool can be used from the mempool_alloc() and mempool_free()
* functions. This function might sleep. Both the alloc_fn() and the free_fn()
- * functions might sleep - as long as the mempool_alloc function is not called
+ * functions might sleep - as long as the mempool_alloc() function is not called
* from IRQ contexts.
*/
mempool_t *mempool_create(int min_nr, mempool_alloc_t *alloc_fn,
mempool_free_t *free_fn, void *pool_data, int node_id)
{
mempool_t *pool;
- pool = kmalloc_node(sizeof(*pool), GFP_KERNEL, node_id);
+ pool = kmalloc_node(sizeof(*pool), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, node_id);
if (!pool)
return NULL;
- memset(pool, 0, sizeof(*pool));
pool->elements = kmalloc_node(min_nr * sizeof(void *),
GFP_KERNEL, node_id);
if (!pool->elements) {
* mempool_create().
* @gfp_mask: the usual allocation bitmask.
*
- * this function only sleeps if the alloc_fn function sleeps or
+ * this function only sleeps if the alloc_fn() function sleeps or
* returns NULL. Note that due to preallocation, this function
* *never* fails when called from process contexts. (it might
* fail if called from an IRQ context.)
{
unsigned long flags;
+ if (unlikely(element == NULL))
+ return;
+
smp_mb();
if (pool->curr_nr < pool->min_nr) {
spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags);