netfilter: x_tables: pass xt_counters struct to counter allocator

Keeps some noise away from a followup patch.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 26 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h b/include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h
index 6e61edeb68e3..05a94bd32c55 100644
--- a/include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h
+++ b/include/linux/netfilter/x_tables.h
@@ -404,32 +404,7 @@ static inline unsigned long ifname_compare_aligned(const char *_a,
 }
 
 
-/* On SMP, ip(6)t_entry->counters.pcnt holds address of the
- * real (percpu) counter.  On !SMP, its just the packet count,
- * so nothing needs to be done there.
- *
- * xt_percpu_counter_alloc returns the address of the percpu
- * counter, or 0 on !SMP. We force an alignment of 16 bytes
- * so that bytes/packets share a common cache line.
- *
- * Hence caller must use IS_ERR_VALUE to check for error, this
- * allows us to return 0 for single core systems without forcing
- * callers to deal with SMP vs. NONSMP issues.
- */
-static inline unsigned long xt_percpu_counter_alloc(void)
-{
-	if (nr_cpu_ids > 1) {
-		void __percpu *res = __alloc_percpu(sizeof(struct xt_counters),
-						    sizeof(struct xt_counters));
-
-		if (res == NULL)
-			return -ENOMEM;
-
-		return (__force unsigned long) res;
-	}
-
-	return 0;
-}
+bool xt_percpu_counter_alloc(struct xt_counters *counters);
 void xt_percpu_counter_free(struct xt_counters *cnt);
 
 static inline struct xt_counters *