1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>allocate_resource</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Linux Kernel API"><link rel="up" href="ch09s03.html" title="Resources Management"><link rel="prev" href="API-release-resource.html" title="release_resource"><link rel="next" href="API-adjust-resource.html" title="adjust_resource"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span class="phrase">allocate_resource</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="API-release-resource.html">Prev</a>&#160;</td><th width="60%" align="center">Resources Management</th><td width="20%" align="right">&#160;<a accesskey="n" href="API-adjust-resource.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="API-allocate-resource"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>allocate_resource &#8212; 
2     allocate empty slot in the resource tree given range &amp; alignment. The resource will be reallocated with a new size if it was already allocated
3 </p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><table border="0" class="funcprototype-table" summary="Function synopsis" style="cellspacing: 0; cellpadding: 0;"><tr><td><code class="funcdef">int <b class="fsfunc">allocate_resource </b>(</code></td><td>struct resource * <var class="pdparam">root</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>struct resource * <var class="pdparam">new</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>resource_size_t <var class="pdparam">size</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>resource_size_t <var class="pdparam">min</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>resource_size_t <var class="pdparam">max</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>resource_size_t <var class="pdparam">align</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>resource_size_t (*<var class="pdparam">alignf</var>)
4     <code>(</code>void *, 						const struct resource *, 						resource_size_t, 						resource_size_t<code>)</code>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>void * <var class="pdparam">alignf_data</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer">&#160;</div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1125958916"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>root</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
5     root resource descriptor
6    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>new</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
7     resource descriptor desired by caller
8    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>size</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
9     requested resource region size
10    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>min</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
11     minimum boundary to allocate
12    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>max</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
13     maximum boundary to allocate
14    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>align</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
15     alignment requested, in bytes
16    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>alignf</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
17     alignment function, optional, called if not NULL
18    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>alignf_data</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
19     arbitrary data to pass to the <em class="parameter"><code>alignf</code></em> function
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