cmm_free_pages(9)

💅 cmm_free_pages(9) — a Kernel API Manual moment

okay so bestie, welcome to cmm_free_pages, straight out of the Kernel API Manual, and no cap this is a short one but we're gonna treat it with the respect it deserves 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

cmm_free_pages — frees pages and marks them as active. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🌸

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

long cmm_free_pages (long nr );

literally one argument. iconic minimalism, honestly 💅

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• nr — the number of pages to free. that's the count, bestie, that's how many pages we're handing back 🔥

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so here's where it says, and I quote, the return value:

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

and yes, the sentence literally stops there 😭 not me reading it three times waiting for the rest — it just ends. mid-thought. main character energy of a manpage that got distracted. but those are the exact words, so I'm passing them to you untouched, fr fr 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the kernel file we're living in is ./arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/cmm.c, and it's giving whole friend group, so here's everyone else in it 🧚:

• cmm_alloc_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)

go read them all, iykyk 💖

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and that's the page!! sign-off time: this little gem lives over at ./arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries, and it's dated October 2026 ⭐ so like, future-dated lore, we love to see it. slay, go free those pages, mwah 🍓💜