From: Ibraheem Umaru-Mohammed <umarumohammed@btinternet.com>
To: Linux C Programming <linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How does malloc tell the kernel to allocate more memory?
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 19:42:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021208194241.GA15936@btinternet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021208192914.GA4262@bandit.kista.gajba.net>
* Boris Bezlaj <boris@bandit.kista.gajba.net> [2002-12-08 19:33]:
> On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:46:57PM -0600, Joseph D. Wagner wrote:
> > I'm trying to write a tracer on memory allocation, and I'm having a little
> > trouble figuring this out.
>
> You sure this has not been done before?
> >
> > 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 dont know much about memory management, but there is some documentation
> at lkdp.tk ..you might want to check it out, although AFAIK it's not finished yet..
>
man {sbrk|brk}?
--ibz
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-08 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-08 18:46 How does malloc tell the kernel to allocate more memory? Joseph D. Wagner
2002-12-08 19:29 ` Boris Bezlaj
2002-12-08 19:42 ` Ibraheem Umaru-Mohammed [this message]
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
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