Linux kernel Memory Allocation Functions: devm_kmalloc / devm_kzalloc / devm_kfree

Linux kernel Memory Allocation Functions: devm_kmalloc / devm_kzalloc / devm_kfree

Kernel version: 5.10

1.void *devm_kmalloc(struct device *dev, size_t size, gfp_t gfp);

drivers/base.devres.c

 813 /**
 814  * devm_kmalloc - Resource-managed kmalloc
 815  * @dev: Device to allocate memory for
 816  * @size: Allocation size
 817  * @gfp: Allocation gfp flags
 818  *
 819  * Managed kmalloc.  Memory allocated with this function is
 820  * automatically freed on driver detach.  Like all other devres
 821  * resources, guaranteed alignment is unsigned long long.
 822  *
 823  * RETURNS:
 824  * Pointer to allocated memory on success, NULL on failure.
 825  */
 826 void *devm_kmalloc(struct device *dev, size_t size, gfp_t gfp)
 827 {
 828         struct devres *dr;
 829 
 830         if (unlikely(!size))
 831                 return ZERO_SIZE_PTR;
 832 
 833         /* use raw alloc_dr for kmalloc caller tracing */
 834         dr = alloc_dr(devm_kmalloc_release, size, gfp, dev_to_node(dev));
 835         if (unlikely(!dr))
 836                 return NULL;
 837 
 838         /*
 839          * This is named devm_kzalloc_release for historical reasons
 840          * The initial implementation did not support kmalloc, only kzalloc
 841          */
 842         set_node_dbginfo(&dr->node, "devm_kzalloc_release", size);
 843         devres_add(dev, dr->data);
 844         return dr->data;
 845 }
 846 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_kmalloc);

2.static inline void *devm_kzalloc(struct device *dev, size_t size, gfp_t gfp);

include/linux/device.h

216 static inline void *devm_kzalloc(struct device *dev, size_t size, gfp_t gfp)
217 {
218         return devm_kmalloc(dev, size, gfp | __GFP_ZERO);
219 }

3.void devm_kfree(struct device *dev, const void *p);

drivers/base.devres.c

1049 /**
1050  * devm_kfree - Resource-managed kfree
1051  * @dev: Device this memory belongs to
1052  * @p: Memory to free
1053  *
1054  * Free memory allocated with devm_kmalloc().
1055  */
1056 void devm_kfree(struct device *dev, const void *p)
1057 {
1058         int rc;
1059 
1060         /*
1061          * Special cases: pointer to a string in .rodata returned by
1062          * devm_kstrdup_const() or NULL/ZERO ptr.
1063          */
1064         if (unlikely(is_kernel_rodata((unsigned long)p) || ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(p)))
1065                 return;
1066 
1067         rc = devres_destroy(dev, devm_kmalloc_release,
1068                             devm_kmalloc_match, (void *)p);
1069         WARN_ON(rc);
1070 }
1071 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_kfree);