gen_pool_add_owner(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this is the gen_pool_add_owner(9) page, and it's literally about adding a new chunk of special memory to the pool. No cap, it's giving allocator-core energy 💅✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

gen_pool_add_owner — add a new chunk of special memory to the pool 💖

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int gen_pool_add_owner (struct gen_pool *pool , unsigned long virt ,
       phys_addr_t phys , size_t size , int nid , void *owner );

💜 ARGUMENTS 💜

  • pool — the pool you're adding this new memory chunk to 🫶
  • virt — virtual starting address of the memory chunk to add to the pool ✨
  • phys — physical starting address of the memory chunk to add to the pool 🌸
  • size — size in bytes of the memory chunk to add to the pool 🎀
  • nid — node id of the node the chunk structure and bitmap should be allocated on, or -1 🦋
  • owner — private data the publisher would like to recall at alloc time 👑

🌼 DESCRIPTION 🌼

Add a new chunk of special memory to the specified pool. That's the whole assignment, bestie — iconic, focused, done. 💅

Returns 0 on success or a -ve errno on failure. So yeah: success is the cute little zero, and failure is negative errno territory — note it and move on 😭

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./lib/genalloc.c is the source, and the whole friend group is:

made with 💖 from the ./lib source/version, dated October 2026 — gen_pool_add_owner(9) out, slay your memory pool bestie 🎀✨

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