mm-api.rst
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Memory Management APIs
User Space Memory Access
Memory Allocation Controls
Functions which need to allocate memory often use GFP flags to express how that memory should be allocated. The GFP acronym stands for "get free pages", the underlying memory allocation function. Not every GFP flag is allowed to every function which may allocate memory. Most users will want to use a plain GFP_KERNEL.