sk_alloc(9)

sk_alloc9

All socket objects are allocated here

Usage

struct sock * sk_alloc(struct net * net, int family, gfp_t priority, struct proto * prot, int kern);

Arguments

net

the applicable net namespace

family

protocol family

priority

for allocation (GFP_KERNEL, GFP_ATOMIC, etc)

prot

struct proto associated with this new sock instance

kern

is this to be a kernel socket?

Releases

6 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8
  6. 9

From linux-manual-4.9 4.9.228-1 in Debian 9 (Stretch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.