DESCRIPTION
The kmalloc function allocates a piece of memory.
The parameter size is the number of bytes that will be allo-
cated. The parameter priority indicates the importance and
type of the memory request. Some possible values are
GFP_DMA, GFP_ATOMIC, GFP_BUFFER, and GFP_NFS.
The kfree function releases a piece of memory that is passed
as the __ptr parameter.
RETURN VALUE
On success, kmalloc returns a pointer to the newly allocated
memory.
If there is an error, NULL is returned instead.
AVAILABILITY
Linux 2.0
AUTHOR
Kirk Petersen (kirk@speakeasy.org)
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