mempool_destroy(9)

💖 mempool_destroy(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ this is the page for mempool_destroy, and yes it's exactly the little cleanup queen you think it is 🧹💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

mempool_destroy — deallocate a memory pool 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void mempool_destroy (struct mempool *pool );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• pool — pointer to the memory pool which was allocated via mempool_create. like, the pool has to be one that came from mempool_create, okay? don't be out here handing it random pointers 🙈

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Free all reserved elements in pool and pool itself. that's it, that's the whole vibe — everything inside goes, and then the pool goes too 🦋

and about the sleeping thing: this function only sleeps if the free_fn function sleeps. no cap. so if your free_fn is a sleepy little thing, then yeah, this call might nap too 😴 otherwise it's not out here catching Zs on its own.

ngl this is the "and scene" moment for your pool — it frees the reserved elements and the pool itself, so don't go touching pool afterwards, bestie 😭

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

kernel file ./mm/mempool.c 👑 and the whole friend group:

• mempool_exit(9)
• mempool_init(9)
• mempool_create_node(9)
• mempool_resize(9)
• mempool_alloc_bulk(9)
• mempool_alloc(9)
• mempool_alloc_preallocated(9)
• mempool_free_bulk(9)
• mempool_free(9)

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okay bye bestie, go free that pool responsibly 🫶✨ this page came from ./mm, dated October 2026, and it is mempool_destroy(9) — periodt 💅🎀