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From: cartercheng@gmail.com (Carter Cheng)
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 22:14:08 +0800
Subject: which functions are used for dynamically allocating memory in the
 kernel?
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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.
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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.

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