which functions are used for dynamically allocating memory in the kernel?

Carter Cheng cartercheng at gmail.com
Wed Nov 28 09:14:08 EST 2018


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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