Chapter 4. Memory Management in Linux

4.1. The Slab Cache

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kmem_cache_create --  Create a cache.
kmem_cache_shrink --  Shrink a cache.
kmem_cache_destroy --  delete a cache
kmem_cache_alloc --  Allocate an object
kmalloc --  allocate memory
kmem_cache_free --  Deallocate an object
kfree --  free previously allocated memory