migrate_vma_finalize(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to migrate_vma_finalize(9) from the Kernel API Manual 💅 this one is all about restoring a CPU page table entry. iconic cleanup behavior, honestly.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void migrate_vma_finalize (struct migrate_vma *migrate );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• migrate — the migrate struct containing, literally, all the migration information 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So here’s the vibe: this replaces the special migration pte entry with either a mapping to the new page if migration was successful for that page, or with a mapping to the original page otherwise. conditional queen 👑

It also unlocks the pages and puts them back on the lru, or — for device pages — drops the extra refcount. multitasking icon behavior fr fr ✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./mm/migrate_device.c:

• migrate_vma_split_folio(9)
• migrate_vma_setup(9)
• migrate_vma_insert_huge_pmd_page(9)
• migrate_device_pages(9)
• migrate_vma_pages(9)
• migrate_device_range(9)
• migrate_device_pfns(9)

cute little sign-off bestie: this page came from source/version ./mm and is dated October 2026 🗓️💖 migrate_vma_finalize(9) said what it said, and it ate. periodt 🫶🌈