lib: Uplevel the pmem "region" ida to a global allocator

In preparation for handling platform differentiated memory types beyond
persistent memory, uplevel the "region" identifier to a global number
space. This enables a device-dax instance to be registered to any memory
type with guaranteed unique names.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/memregion.c b/lib/memregion.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..77c85b5251da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/memregion.c
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+/* identifiers for device / performance-differentiated memory regions */
+#include <linux/idr.h>
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+static DEFINE_IDA(memregion_ids);
+
+int memregion_alloc(gfp_t gfp)
+{
+	return ida_alloc(&memregion_ids, gfp);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(memregion_alloc);
+
+void memregion_free(int id)
+{
+	ida_free(&memregion_ids, id);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(memregion_free);