1. NAME▲

mempool_alloc - allocate an element from a specific memory pool

2. SYNOPSIS ▲

void * mempool_alloc(mempool_t *  pool , gfp_t  gfp_mask );

3. ARGUMENTS ▲

pool
    pointer to the memory pool which was allocated via mempool_create.

gfp_mask
    the usual allocation bitmask.

4. DESCRIPTION ▲

this function only sleeps if the alloc_fn function sleeps or returns NULL. Note that due to preallocation, this function *never* fails when called from process contexts. (it might fail if called from an IRQ context.)

5. COPYRIGHT ▲