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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/slab.h | 18 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst b/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst index 4446a1ac36cc..5954ddf6ee13 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst @@ -147,6 +147,10 @@ The address of a chunk allocated with `kmalloc` is aligned to at least ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN bytes. For sizes which are a power of two, the alignment is also guaranteed to be at least the respective size. +Chunks allocated with kmalloc() can be resized with krealloc(). Similarly +to kmalloc_array(): a helper for resizing arrays is provided in the form of +krealloc_array(). + For large allocations you can use vmalloc() and vzalloc(), or directly request pages from the page allocator. The memory allocated by `vmalloc` and related functions is not physically contiguous. diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h index dd6897f62010..be4ba5867ac5 100644 --- a/include/linux/slab.h +++ b/include/linux/slab.h @@ -593,6 +593,24 @@ static inline void *kmalloc_array(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags) } /** + * krealloc_array - reallocate memory for an array. + * @p: pointer to the memory chunk to reallocate + * @new_n: new number of elements to alloc + * @new_size: new size of a single member of the array + * @flags: the type of memory to allocate (see kmalloc) + */ +static __must_check inline void * +krealloc_array(void *p, size_t new_n, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags) +{ + size_t bytes; + + if (unlikely(check_mul_overflow(new_n, new_size, &bytes))) + return NULL; + + return krealloc(p, bytes, flags); +} + +/** * kcalloc - allocate memory for an array. The memory is set to zero. * @n: number of elements. * @size: element size. |