MEMPOOL_ALLOC

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

mempool_alloc - allocate an element from a specific memory pool  

SYNOPSIS

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.
 

DESCRIPTION

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.)  

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