From: cartercheng@gmail.com (Carter Cheng) To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org Subject: which functions are used for dynamically allocating memory in the kernel? Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 22:14:08 +0800 [thread overview] Message-ID: <CALS6=qWAo1kjOgJK06TrZUCaoQequaxxQn7Xi30OisCvbN-3VA@mail.gmail.com> (raw) Hello, I am curious which sets of functions return pointers for the purpose of dynamic allocating memory in the kernel? I am aware of get_free_pages family, kmalloc, vmalloc, the slab allocator and mempools are there any others? Thanks in advance, Carter. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20181128/017bf0bc/attachment.html>
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From: Carter Cheng <cartercheng@gmail.com> To: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org Subject: which functions are used for dynamically allocating memory in the kernel? Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 22:14:08 +0800 [thread overview] Message-ID: <CALS6=qWAo1kjOgJK06TrZUCaoQequaxxQn7Xi30OisCvbN-3VA@mail.gmail.com> (raw) Message-ID: <20181128141408.Mnc7141W748CH5qVgiitT0rkswTcSNn2-A0yoJHJ7GY@z> (raw) [-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 259 bytes --] Hello, I am curious which sets of functions return pointers for the purpose of dynamic allocating memory in the kernel? I am aware of get_free_pages family, kmalloc, vmalloc, the slab allocator and mempools are there any others? Thanks in advance, Carter. [-- Attachment #1.2: Type: text/html, Size: 357 bytes --] [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/plain, Size: 170 bytes --] _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
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