@@ -147,6 +147,10 @@ The address of a chunk allocated with `kmalloc` is aligned to at least
ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN bytes. For sizes which are a power of two, the
alignment is also guaranteed to be at least the respective size.
+Chunks allocated with `kmalloc` can be resized with `krealloc`. Similarly
+to `kmalloc_array`: a helper for resising arrays is provided in the form of
+`krealloc_array`.
+
For large allocations you can use vmalloc() and vzalloc(), or directly
request pages from the page allocator. The memory allocated by `vmalloc`
and related functions is not physically contiguous.
@@ -592,6 +592,24 @@ static inline void *kmalloc_array(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
return __kmalloc(bytes, flags);
}
+/**
+ * krealloc_array - reallocate memory for an array.
+ * @p: pointer to the memory chunk to reallocate
+ * @new_n: new number of elements to alloc
+ * @new_size: new size of a single member of the array
+ * @flags: the type of memory to allocate (see kmalloc)
+ */
+static __must_check inline void *
+krealloc_array(void *p, size_t new_n, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags)
+{
+ size_t bytes;
+
+ if (unlikely(check_mul_overflow(new_n, new_size, &bytes)))
+ return NULL;
+
+ return krealloc(p, bytes, flags);
+}
+
/**
* kcalloc - allocate memory for an array. The memory is set to zero.
* @n: number of elements.