Re: Allocating memory in the form of 'BITS'

From: Scott Lovenberg
Date: Tue Mar 25 2008 - 06:32:25 EST


Shard Gupta wrote:
Hello List,

I am writing a linux kernel module, and I want to allocates the memory
in a way so I can define each individual bit, like bitfield structure
in userspace.
Please tell me the way to do the same.

Thanks and regards,

Shard Gupta

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If you want to set every bit to zero, you could use calloc(); otherwise, I think you'll need to use a bitmask and "<<", ">>" (bit shift left, right). You could also probably do a bitwise '&' and '|'.
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