Re: Some memory reallocation in kernel mode

["Ch.Rama Krishna Prasad" <rkp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi
   I think you can use kfree function to free the memory in kernel level.
From
Ch.R.K.Prasad


On Fri, 08 Dec 2000, Ketan Mehta wrote:
> hi ,
> 	this is in linux , some device drive ... here there is nothint to do
> with sgi box.
> 
> 	kmalloc is allocation. what i want to know is - what realloc does in
> user space, is there something like that in kernel space. or i have to
> do manually. 
> 
> 	see my original post for query.
> 
> >         which kernel ? Linux ? Not very obvious, even though we are on a
> > Linux list.. because a lot many of your earlier letters would betray that
> > you are on SGI.. so are you on SGI/IRIX or SGI/Linux ??
> > 
> > In any case, check out kmalloc.
> > 
> 
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