VZALLOC
Section: Memory Management in Linux (9)
Updated: February 2011
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NAME
vzalloc - allocate virtually contiguous memory with zero fill
SYNOPSIS
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void * vzalloc(unsigned long size);
ARGUMENTS
size
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- allocation size Allocate enough pages to cover
size
from the page level allocator and map them into contiguous kernel virtual space. The memory allocated is set to zero.
DESCRIPTION
For tight control over page level allocator and protection flags use
__vmalloc
instead.
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