DMA_HEAP_IOCTL_ALLOC - ALLOCATE MEMORY FROM POOL(9)

💖 DMA_HEAP_IOCTL_ALLOC — allocate memory from pool 💖

okay bestie, this is a Kernel API Manual page, section 9, and the header is literally DMA_HEAP_IOC...ry from pool(9). We are keeping it cute and accurate. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

DMA_HEAP_IOCTL_ALLOC — allocate memory from pool

🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

So the way this works is: it takes a dma_heap_allocation_data struct and returns it with the fd field populated with the dmabuf handle of the allocation. That's the whole glow-up. No cap. 💅

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• Kernel file ./include/uapi/linux/dma-heap.h
• DMABUF Heaps Userspace API(9)
• struct dma_heap_allocation_data(9)

💖 source/version: ./include/uapi/linux · date: October 2026 · page title: DMA_HEAP_IOC...ry from pool(9) 💖