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2) If the flags parameter does not contain FRAME_ATOMIC, the allocator
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2) If the flags parameter does not contain FRAME_ATOMIC, the allocator
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   will never return NULL, but it CAN sleep indefinitely. The caller
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   will never return NULL, but it CAN sleep indefinitely. The caller
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   does not have to check the return value.
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   does not have to check the return value.
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3) The maximum size that can be allocated using malloc is 128K
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3) The maximum size that can be allocated using malloc is 256K
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Rules 1) and 2) apply to slab_alloc as well. Using SLAB allocator
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Rules 1) and 2) apply to slab_alloc as well. Using SLAB allocator
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to allocate too large values is not recommended.
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to allocate too large values is not recommended.
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