folio_mark_lazyfree(9)

💖 folio_mark_lazyfree — Kernel API Manual ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the group chat for a tiny kernel function 🫶 this one lives in the Kernel API Manual, and it's lowkey iconic for what it does to a folio.

🌸 NAME

folio_mark_lazyfree — make an anon folio lazyfree 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS

void folio_mark_lazyfree (struct folio *folio );

🎀 ARGUMENTS

• folio — folio to deactivate 🦋

🧚 DESCRIPTION

folio_mark_lazyfree moves folio to the inactive file list. The whole point? It accelerates the reclaim of folio — so yeah, it's giving "let's make reclaim happen faster" energy 🔥

👑 SEE ALSO

• Kernel file ./mm/folio.c
• folio_mark_accessed(9)
• folio_add_lru(9)
• folio_add_lru_vma(9)
• deactivate_file_folio(9)
• lru_cache_drain_for_folio(9)
• folios_put_refs(9)
• release_pages(9)
• folio_batch_remove_exceptionals(9)

mwah 💋 that's the whole page, bestie — source/version is ./mm, and it's dated October 2026. periodt ✨🎀