Commit b4dfa0b1 authored by Herbert Xu's avatar Herbert Xu Committed by David S. Miller

[NET]: Get rid of alloc_skb_from_cache

Since this was added originally for Xen, and Xen has recently (~2.6.18)
stopped using this function, we can safely get rid of it.  Good timing
too since this function has started to bit rot.
Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 6f29e35e
......@@ -514,7 +514,6 @@
*(.text.dentry_open)
*(.text.dentry_iput)
*(.text.bio_alloc)
*(.text.alloc_skb_from_cache)
*(.text.wait_on_page_bit)
*(.text.vfs_readdir)
*(.text.vfs_lstat)
......
......@@ -346,9 +346,6 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *alloc_skb_fclone(unsigned int size,
return __alloc_skb(size, priority, 1, -1);
}
extern struct sk_buff *alloc_skb_from_cache(struct kmem_cache *cp,
unsigned int size,
gfp_t priority);
extern void kfree_skbmem(struct sk_buff *skb);
extern struct sk_buff *skb_clone(struct sk_buff *skb,
gfp_t priority);
......
......@@ -196,61 +196,6 @@ nodata:
goto out;
}
/**
* alloc_skb_from_cache - allocate a network buffer
* @cp: kmem_cache from which to allocate the data area
* (object size must be big enough for @size bytes + skb overheads)
* @size: size to allocate
* @gfp_mask: allocation mask
*
* Allocate a new &sk_buff. The returned buffer has no headroom and
* tail room of size bytes. The object has a reference count of one.
* The return is the buffer. On a failure the return is %NULL.
*
* Buffers may only be allocated from interrupts using a @gfp_mask of
* %GFP_ATOMIC.
*/
struct sk_buff *alloc_skb_from_cache(struct kmem_cache *cp,
unsigned int size,
gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
struct sk_buff *skb;
u8 *data;
/* Get the HEAD */
skb = kmem_cache_alloc(skbuff_head_cache,
gfp_mask & ~__GFP_DMA);
if (!skb)
goto out;
/* Get the DATA. */
size = SKB_DATA_ALIGN(size);
data = kmem_cache_alloc(cp, gfp_mask);
if (!data)
goto nodata;
memset(skb, 0, offsetof(struct sk_buff, truesize));
skb->truesize = size + sizeof(struct sk_buff);
atomic_set(&skb->users, 1);
skb->head = data;
skb->data = data;
skb->tail = data;
skb->end = data + size;
atomic_set(&(skb_shinfo(skb)->dataref), 1);
skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags = 0;
skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_size = 0;
skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_segs = 0;
skb_shinfo(skb)->gso_type = 0;
skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list = NULL;
out:
return skb;
nodata:
kmem_cache_free(skbuff_head_cache, skb);
skb = NULL;
goto out;
}
/**
* __netdev_alloc_skb - allocate an skbuff for rx on a specific device
* @dev: network device to receive on
......
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