free_cpumask_var(9)

okay bestie, welcome to free_cpumask_var(9) from the Kernel API Manual — we are literally about to free a struct cpumask and look cute doing it 💅✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

• free_cpumask_var — frees memory allocated for a struct cpumask. periodt.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void free_cpumask_var (cpumask_var_t mask );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• mask — the cpumask to free, bestie. that's the whole assignment 💖

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so the icon behavior: this is safe on a NULL mask 🫶✨ no cap, literally safe. the way that's the entire description and it still ate 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the kernel file ./lib/cpumask.c is the source haunt, and these linked-up besties are also in the group chat:

• alloc_cpumask_var_node(9)
• alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(9)
• free_bootmem_cpumask_var(9)
• cpumask_local_spread(9)
• cpumask_any_and_distribute(9)
• cpumask_any_distribute(9)

xoxo, from the ./lib corner of the Kernel API Manual, dated October 2026 — free_cpumask_var(9) out 💅🎀