kvm_pgtable_...ree_unlinked(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 kvm_pgtable_...ree_unlinked(9) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one's about kvm_pgtable_stage2_free_unlinked, and honestly? it's giving "quiet cleanup crew, main character energy" 🧹💅 no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

kvm_pgtable_stage2_free_unlinked — frees an unlinked stage-2 paging structure. literally just yeets it into the void 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void kvm_pgtable_stage2_free_unlinked (struct kvm_pgtable_mm_ops *mm_ops
, void *pgtable , s8 level );

that's the whole vibe check, bestie — void return, three args, no drama 💜

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • mm_ops — the memory management callbacks 💫 like, the little instruction manual for how memory gets handled around here
  • pgtable — the unlinked stage-2 paging structure that's getting freed 🦋 she's the one being sent off
  • level — the level of the stage-2 paging structure being freed 🍓 an s8, so keep that in mind, k? iykyk

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so here's the tea ☕ the page-table is assumed to be unreachable by any hardware walkers prior to freeing — like, nobody's looking at her, she's off the grid, no hardware walker is gonna stroll up 🙈 and because of that assumption, no TLB invalidation is performed. none. zero. not a single flush 🔥

⚠️ bestie, clock that word "assumed" — that's a precondition, not a vibe suggestion. if a hardware walker can still reach this page-table, that's on you, not on the function 💀

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the whole squad, fr fr 💅

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🌈✨ this lil masterpiece lives at ./arch/arm64/include/asm, it's dated October 2026, and it answers to the name kvm_pgtable_...ree_unlinked(9) 🎀 mwah, go free some page tables responsibly 💖🦋

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