Re: [RFC 0/2] new kfifo API

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>]

On Monday 03 August 2009, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > struct kfifo *kfifo_alloc(unsigned long size, gfp_t gfp_mask)
> >  Dynamically allocates a new fifo and returns the address
> >  @size: the size of the internal buffer to be allocated.
> >  @gfp_mask: get_free_pages mask, passed to kmalloc()
> 
> For the MCE use case this would need to be able to optionally use
> bootmem because the first initialization happens too early.

The existing API has a kfifo_init for that purpose, so you can
pass a preallocated (bootmem, static, coherent, aligned, ...) buffer
into the FIFO.

That might be nice to keep, by leaving the 'buffer' as pointer
in struct kfifo, which could still point to a buffer that is
allocated together with the structu kfifo.

	Arnd <><