malloc() in kernel and increasing mbuf and cluster size

Nick Strebkov nick at humgat.org
Mon Oct 17 05:07:38 PDT 2005


Hi, Kamal

On 17.10.2005 04:49:01, kamal kc wrote:
> this may be a trivial question for many of you
> but i am confused in doing memory allocation in the 
> kernel.
> 
> sys/malloc.h has function prototypes for malloc()
> kern/kern_malloc.c defines the malloc()
> 
> the malloc() definition is
> 
> void *
> malloc(size, type, flags)
> 	unsigned long size;
> 	struct malloc_type *type;
> 	int flags;
> 
> i understand the size and flags but what shall i 
> do with the malloc_type.

man 9 malloc :-)

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