get_exclude_memory_ranges(9)

✨ get_exclude_memory_ranges(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this is the page for get_exclude_memory_ranges, and honestly? it's giving "the VIP bouncer of memory ranges" 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

get_exclude_memory_ranges — grab the list of exclude memory ranges. no cap, this list is the do not touch section: it includes regions like opal/rtas, tce-table, initrd, kernel, and htab, all of which should be avoided while you're setting up kexec load segments. like, hands off, these are NOT for you 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int get_exclude_memory_ranges (struct crash_mem **mem_ranges );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• mem_ranges — the range list you're adding the memory ranges to. that's the destination, bestie, it's where everything gets dropped off 📦

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⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

here's the whole vibe check: it returns 0 on success, and a negative errno on error. that's it, that's the tea ☕ periodt.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

bestie this is the whole friend group, iykyk 🫶

Kernel file ./arch/powerpc/kexec/ranges.c — plus these iconic functions:

• get_max_nr_ranges(9)
• get_mem_rngs_size(9)
• __add_mem_range(9)
• __merge_memory_ranges(9)
• sort_memory_ranges(9)
• realloc_mem_ranges(9)
• add_mem_range(9)
• add_tce_mem_ranges(9)
• add_initrd_mem_range(9)
• add_htab_mem_range(9)
• add_kernel_mem_range(9)
• add_rtas_mem_range(9)
• add_opal_mem_range(9)
• add_reserved_mem_ranges(9)
• get_reserved_memory_ranges(9)
• get_usable_memory_ranges(9)
• get_crash_memory_ranges(9)

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🌈 and that's a wrap, angel! this lil slice of the manual lives down in ./arch/powerpc/kexec, and it's dated October 2026. go forth and exclude those ranges responsibly 💜🎀✨