padata_alloc(9)

🌸 padata_alloc(9) 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this one is all about padata_alloc, and it’s literally here to allocate and initialize a padata instance. iconic behavior, no cap 💅

✨ NAME ✨

padata_alloc — allocate and initialize a padata instance 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

struct padata_instance * padata_alloc (const char *name );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• name — used to identify the instance. that’s its whole vibe, bestie 🫶

🌈 RETURN 🌈

new instance on success, NULL on error. so yeah, check your return value, fr fr 😭

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./kernel/padata.c is right there, and these besties are all linked too:

• padata_do_parallel(9)
• padata_do_serial(9)
• padata_do_multithreaded(9)
• padata_set_cpumask(9)
• padata_free(9)
• padata_alloc_shell(9)
• padata_free_shell(9)

okay bye bestie — source/version ./kernel, dated October 2026, signing off with main character energy 💖✨