KZALLOC

Section: Memory Management in Linux (9)
Updated: February 2011
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NAME

kzalloc - allocate memory. The memory is set to zero.

SYNOPSIS

void * kzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags);

ARGUMENTS

size

: how many bytes of memory are required.

flags

: the type of memory to allocate (see kmalloc).

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