bitmap: Add bitmap_alloc(), bitmap_zalloc() and bitmap_free()

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1864773

commit c42b65e3 upstream.

A lot of code become ugly because of open coding allocations for bitmaps.

Introduce three helpers to allow users be more clear of intention
and keep their code neat.

Note, due to multiple circular dependencies we may not provide
the helpers as inliners. For now we keep them exported and, perhaps,
at some point in the future we will sort out header inclusion and
inheritance.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>

include/linux/bitmap.h

@@ -85,6 +85,14 @@
  * contain all bit positions from 0 to 'bits' - 1.
  */
 
+/*
+ * Allocation and deallocation of bitmap.
+ * Provided in lib/bitmap.c to avoid circular dependency.
+ */
+extern unsigned long *bitmap_alloc(unsigned int nbits, gfp_t flags);
+extern unsigned long *bitmap_zalloc(unsigned int nbits, gfp_t flags);
+extern void bitmap_free(const unsigned long *bitmap);
+
 /*
  * lib/bitmap.c provides these functions:
  */

lib/bitmap.c

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include <linux/bug.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/string.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
 
 #include <asm/page.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -1170,3 +1171,22 @@ void bitmap_copy_le(unsigned long *dst, const unsigned long *src, unsigned int n
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(bitmap_copy_le);
 #endif
+
+unsigned long *bitmap_alloc(unsigned int nbits, gfp_t flags)
+{
+	return kmalloc_array(BITS_TO_LONGS(nbits), sizeof(unsigned long),
+			     flags);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(bitmap_alloc);
+
+unsigned long *bitmap_zalloc(unsigned int nbits, gfp_t flags)
+{
+	return bitmap_alloc(nbits, flags | __GFP_ZERO);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(bitmap_zalloc);
+
+void bitmap_free(const unsigned long *bitmap)
+{
+	kfree(bitmap);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(bitmap_free);