KZALLOC(9) Memory Management in Linux KZALLOC(9)NAMEkzalloc - allocate memory. The memory is set to zero.
SYNOPSIS
void * kzalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags);
ARGUMENTS
size
how many bytes of memory are required.
flags
the type of memory to allocate (see kmalloc).
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