cmm_alloc_pages(9)

💅 cmm_alloc_pages(9) — Kernel API Manual, but make it make sense

okay so bestie, gather round, because we're looking at cmm_alloc_pages from the Kernel API Manual and honestly? It's giving "short but mysterious." Let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

cmm_alloc_pages — allocate pages and mark them as loaned 🌸

Like, it grabs you some pages and then officially labels them "loaned," no cap.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

long cmm_alloc_pages (long nr );

That's it. That's the whole vibe. One function, one argument, returns a long. Iconic minimalism tbh 💅

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• nr — the number of pages to allocate. That's the whole assignment. Tell it how many pages you want, bestie, and it'll do the thing 📄✨

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so here's where the plot thickens (and also where the page just… stops? 😭). What we've got is:

Return value: number of pages requested to be allocated which were not

…and that's literally where the sentence ends. Not me leaving you on a cliffhanger 😭💀 That's genuinely all the text there is, so I'm not gonna invent the rest — fr fr, no making stuff up on my watch. What we do know: the return value is a count of pages that were requested to be allocated and were not [something]. Fill in the blank at your own risk, bestie 🙈

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

More cmm content for your reading pleasure, all lowercase and all linked:

• Kernel file ./arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/cmm.c — the main character itself 🔥
• cmm_free_pages(9)
• cmm_oom_notify(9)
• cmm_get_mpp(9)
• cmm_thread(9)
• cmm_sysfs_register(9)
• cmm_unregister_sysfs(9)
• cmm_reboot_notifier(9)
• cmm_memory_cb(9)
• cmm_init(9)
• cmm_exit(9)
• cmm_set_disable(9)

That's eleven whole functions plus a file — a whole friend group, honestly 🌈💜

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tiny vibe check 🧚 This page literally ends mid-sentence in DESCRIPTION. That's not me being lazy, that's the source material being mysterious. Preserve the mystery. Periodt. 💅

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! sign-off time: this one lives in ./arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries, and the date stamp on it is October 2026 ⭐ so it's somehow from the future AND from powerpc. main character energy fr fr 👑🦋 mwah, go allocate some pages 💖