1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>__alloc_skb</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Linux Networking and Network Devices APIs"><link rel="up" href="ch01s02.html" title="Socket Buffer Functions"><link rel="prev" href="API-sock-unregister.html" title="sock_unregister"><link rel="next" href="API-netdev-alloc-frag.html" title="netdev_alloc_frag"></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">__alloc_skb</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="API-sock-unregister.html">Prev</a>&#160;</td><th width="60%" align="center">Socket Buffer Functions</th><td width="20%" align="right">&#160;<a accesskey="n" href="API-netdev-alloc-frag.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="API---alloc-skb"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>__alloc_skb &#8212; 
2  allocate a network buffer
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">struct sk_buff * <b class="fsfunc">__alloc_skb </b>(</code></td><td>unsigned int <var class="pdparam">size</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>gfp_t <var class="pdparam">gfp_mask</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>int <var class="pdparam">flags</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>int <var class="pdparam">node</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer">&#160;</div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1095993548"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>size</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
4     size to allocate
5    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>gfp_mask</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
6     allocation mask
7    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>flags</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
8     If SKB_ALLOC_FCLONE is set, allocate from fclone cache
9     instead of head cache and allocate a cloned (child) skb.
10     If SKB_ALLOC_RX is set, __GFP_MEMALLOC will be used for
11     allocations in case the data is required for writeback
12    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>node</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
13     numa node to allocate memory on
14    </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1095998236"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
15   Allocate a new <span class="structname">sk_buff</span>. The returned buffer has no headroom and a
16   tail room of at least size bytes. The object has a reference count
17   of one. The return is the buffer. On a failure the return is <code class="constant">NULL</code>.
18   </p><p>
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20   Buffers may only be allocated from interrupts using a <em class="parameter"><code>gfp_mask</code></em> of
21   <code class="constant">GFP_ATOMIC</code>.
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