1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968"><title>sk_alloc</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-sk-set-memalloc.html" title="sk_set_memalloc"><link rel="next" href="API-sk-clone-lock.html" title="sk_clone_lock"></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">sk_alloc</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="API-sk-set-memalloc.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-sk-clone-lock.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="API-sk-alloc"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>sk_alloc &#8212; 
2     All socket objects are allocated here
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 sock * <b class="fsfunc">sk_alloc </b>(</code></td><td>struct net * <var class="pdparam">net</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>int <var class="pdparam">family</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>gfp_t <var class="pdparam">priority</var>, </td></tr><tr><td>&#160;</td><td>struct proto * <var class="pdparam">prot</var><code>)</code>;</td></tr></table><div class="funcprototype-spacer">&#160;</div></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idp1096502588"></a><h2>Arguments</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>net</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
4     the applicable net namespace
5    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>family</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
6     protocol family
7    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>priority</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
8     for allocation (<code class="constant">GFP_KERNEL</code>, <code class="constant">GFP_ATOMIC</code>, etc)
9    </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>prot</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
10     struct proto associated with this new sock instance
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