[PATCH] slob: introduce mm/util.c for shared functions

Add mm/util.c for functions common between SLAB and SLOB.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5f4bb59da63c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+
+/**
+ * kzalloc - allocate memory. The memory is set to zero.
+ * @size: how many bytes of memory are required.
+ * @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
+ */
+void *kzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
+{
+	void *ret = kmalloc(size, flags);
+	if (ret)
+		memset(ret, 0, size);
+	return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kzalloc);
+
+/*
+ * kstrdup - allocate space for and copy an existing string
+ *
+ * @s: the string to duplicate
+ * @gfp: the GFP mask used in the kmalloc() call when allocating memory
+ */
+char *kstrdup(const char *s, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+	size_t len;
+	char *buf;
+
+	if (!s)
+		return NULL;
+
+	len = strlen(s) + 1;
+	buf = kmalloc(len, gfp);
+	if (buf)
+		memcpy(buf, s, len);
+	return buf;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrdup);