mm: vmalloc: introduce array allocation functions

Linux has dozens of occurrences of vmalloc(array_size()) and
vzalloc(array_size()).  Allow to simplify the code by providing
vmalloc_array and vcalloc, as well as the underscored variants that let
the caller specify the GFP flags.

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
index 880227b9f044..d1bbd4fd50c5 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
@@ -159,6 +159,11 @@ void *__vmalloc_node(unsigned long size, unsigned long align, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 		int node, const void *caller) __alloc_size(1);
 void *vmalloc_no_huge(unsigned long size) __alloc_size(1);
 
+extern void *__vmalloc_array(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags) __alloc_size(1, 2);
+extern void *vmalloc_array(size_t n, size_t size) __alloc_size(1, 2);
+extern void *__vcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags) __alloc_size(1, 2);
+extern void *vcalloc(size_t n, size_t size) __alloc_size(1, 2);
+
 extern void vfree(const void *addr);
 extern void vfree_atomic(const void *addr);