Thanks!
On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 12:51 AM Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 3:17 PM Carter Cheng <cartercheng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am curious where in the kernel sources would I find the kmalloc implementation? I am curious how GFP_ATOMIC option is implemented.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carter.
Hi Carter,
kmalloc() implementation can be found in include/linux/slab.h.
Interesting part of kmalloc() is the use of kmem_cache. kmem_cache is
basically a pool of memory. kmalloc() maintains a system of
kmem_cache's and allocates memory from those caches to the caller. How
it allocates that memory is determined by type of request (e.g.
GFP_ATOMIC) and "buddy system" algorithm, which is an algorithm
designed to minimise fragmentation and be cache efficient.
>From what I remember, kmalloc system sets aside memory for "emergency"
uses, like kmalloc calls with GFP_ATOMIC. So for normal memory
allocation calls, execution may sleep until memory becomes available,
even though there may be memory available in the emergence cache.
Hope it helps :)
Okash
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