Chapter 4. Memory Management in Linux
- kmalloc —
allocate memory
- kmalloc_array —
allocate memory for an array.
- kcalloc —
allocate memory for an array. The memory is set to zero.
- kzalloc —
allocate memory. The memory is set to zero.
- kzalloc_node —
allocate zeroed memory from a particular memory node.
- kmem_cache_alloc —
Allocate an object
- kmem_cache_alloc_node —
Allocate an object on the specified node
- kmem_cache_free —
Deallocate an object
- kfree —
free previously allocated memory
- ksize —
get the actual amount of memory allocated for a given object
- kfree_const —
conditionally free memory
- kstrdup —
allocate space for and copy an existing string
- kstrdup_const —
conditionally duplicate an existing const string
- kstrndup —
allocate space for and copy an existing string
- kmemdup —
duplicate region of memory
- memdup_user —
duplicate memory region from user space
- get_user_pages_fast —
pin user pages in memory
- kvmalloc_node —
attempt to allocate physically contiguous memory, but upon failure, fall back to non-contiguous (vmalloc) allocation.