From: "Joseph D. Wagner" <wagnerjd@prodigy.net>
To: Linux C Programming <linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Newbie <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: How does malloc tell the kernel to allocate more memory?
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 12:46:57 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000301c29eea$3107dd10$032a1c43@joe> (raw)
I'm trying to write a tracer on memory allocation, and I'm having a little
trouble figuring this out.
At some point, malloc has to call the kernel to tell it to allocate more
memory for this user process, right? I can't figure out which function
malloc calls, or where in the code (line number) it's called.
I'm looking at glib-2.3.1 to try and find my answers. After all, that's
where malloc is defined, right?
TIA.
Joseph Wagner
next reply other threads:[~2002-12-08 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-08 18:46 Joseph D. Wagner [this message]
2002-12-08 19:29 ` How does malloc tell the kernel to allocate more memory? Boris Bezlaj
2002-12-08 19:42 ` Ibraheem Umaru-Mohammed
2002-12-08 21:20 ` Glynn Clements
2002-12-09 0:34 ` How does malloc tell the kernel to allocate more memory? -- CORRECTION Joseph D. Wagner
2002-12-09 6:55 ` How does malloc tell the kernel to allocate more memory? Heinrich du Toit
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='000301c29eea$3107dd10$032a1c43@joe' \
--to=wagnerjd@prodigy.net \
--cc=linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).