suse man page for mempool_alloc

Query: mempool_alloc

OS: suse

Section: 9

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MEMPOOL_ALLOC(9)					    Memory Management in Linux						  MEMPOOL_ALLOC(9)

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.)
COPYRIGHT
Kernel Hackers Manual 2.6. July 2010 MEMPOOL_ALLOC(9)
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