page_address(9)

💅 page_address(9) — Kernel API Manual, bestie edition 🎀

okay so welcome to the page_address glow-up ✨ this one lives in the Kernel API Manual and it's honestly such a lil cutie — one job, does it well, periodt.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

page_address — get the mapped virtual address of a page 🦋

like, you hand it a page and it hands you back where that page lives in virtual-address land. no cap, that's the whole vibe.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void * page_address (const struct page *page );

look at her. one function, one argument, returns a void *. main character energy fr fr 👑

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• page — the struct page you want the virtual address of 🫶 that's it, that's the whole argument list, we love a low-maintenance icon.

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Returns the page's virtual address. literally it. that's the sentence. the function returns the page's virtual address and honestly?

ngl this is the shortest DESCRIPTION ever and she still ate 💅 no filler, no fluff, just vibes and a return value.

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Kernel file ./mm/highmem.c 🔥
• kmap_high(9)
• kmap_high_get(9)
• kunmap_high(9)
• set_page_address(9)

go read those too bestie, they're all in ./mm/highmem.c and they're all part of the same highmem friend group 🌈 iykyk

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and that's the whole page!! mwah 💋 kisses from the ./mm tree — this one's dated October 2026, so it's giving future icon ⭐🌸🍓 go forth and map those addresses, bestie 💜