bitmap_allocate_region(9)

bitmap_allocate_region9

Allocate bitmap region

Usage

int bitmap_allocate_region(unsigned long * bitmap, unsigned int pos, int order);

Arguments

bitmap

array of unsigned longs corresponding to the bitmap

pos

beginning of bit region to allocate

order

region size (log base 2 of number of bits) to allocate

Overview

Allocate (set bits in) a specified region of a bitmap.

Return 0 on success, or -EBUSY if specified region wasn't free (not all bits were zero).

Releases

6 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8
  6. 9

From linux-manual-4.9 4.9.228-1 in Debian 9 (Stretch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.