memalloc_pin_restore(9)

💅 memalloc_pin_restore(9) 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one's a little function with one job and she does it flawlessly, no cap.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

memalloc_pin_restore — ends the implicit ~__GFP_MOVABLE scope 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void memalloc_pin_restore (unsigned int flags );

like, that's it. that's the whole signature. she's tidy 💅

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• flags — the flags you're restoring. that's literally the whole vibe: flags to restore 🔥

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so, memalloc_pin_restore ends the implicit ~__GFP_MOVABLE scope that was started by the memalloc_pin_save function 🦋 yep, she's the closer. the one who turns the lights off after the party.

⚠️ bestie, listen: always make sure that the given flags is the return value from the pairing memalloc_pin_save call. like, the pairing one. not your cousin's. not some random number you found. the pairing one 🙈 fr fr. these two are a matched set, iykyk.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./include/linux/sched/mm.h and her whole friend group:

• mmgrab(9)
• mmget(9)
• might_alloc(9)
• memalloc_flags_save(9)
• memalloc_noio_save(9)
• memalloc_noio_restore(9)
• memalloc_nofs_save(9)
• memalloc_nofs_restore(9)
• memalloc_noreclaim_save(9)
• memalloc_noreclaim_restore(9)
• memalloc_pin_save(9) — the main character she's paired with 👑
• set_active_memcg(9)

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💀 and that's the whole page 💀 sourced straight from ./include/linux/sched, dated October 2026, and signed off with a little memalloc_pin_restore(9) 🎀 mwah, go restore those flags responsibly bestie 🫶✨