On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 10:06:17PM +0200, Igor Stoppa wrote: > struct gen_pool *pmalloc_create_pool(const char *name, > int min_alloc_order); > int is_pmalloc_object(const void *ptr, const unsigned long n); > bool pmalloc_prealloc(struct gen_pool *pool, size_t size); > void *pmalloc(struct gen_pool *pool, size_t size, gfp_t gfp); > static inline void *pzalloc(struct gen_pool *pool, size_t size, gfp_t gfp) > static inline void *pmalloc_array(struct gen_pool *pool, size_t n, > size_t size, gfp_t flags) > static inline void *pcalloc(struct gen_pool *pool, size_t n, > size_t size, gfp_t flags) > static inline char *pstrdup(struct gen_pool *pool, const char *s, gfp_t gfp) > int pmalloc_protect_pool(struct gen_pool *pool); > static inline void pfree(struct gen_pool *pool, const void *addr) > int pmalloc_destroy_pool(struct gen_pool *pool); Do you have users for all these functions? I'm particularly sceptical of pfree(). To my mind, a user wants to: pmalloc_create(); pmalloc(); * N pmalloc_protect(); ... pmalloc_destroy(); I don't mind the pstrdup, pcalloc, pmalloc_array, pzalloc variations, but I don't know why you need is_pmalloc_object().