mempool_alloc9
Allocate an element from a specific memory pool
Usage
void * mempool_alloc(mempool_t * pool, gfp_t gfp_mask);
Arguments
pool
pointer to the memory pool which was allocated via mempool_create.
gfp_mask
the usual allocation bitmask.
Overview
this function only sleeps if the alloc_fn function sleeps or returns NULL. Note that due to preallocation, this function *never* fails when called from process contexts. (it might fail if called from an IRQ context.)
Note
using __GFP_ZERO is not supported.
Releases
6 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 5 times.