page_pool_dev_alloc_pages(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

Hii bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual! Today’s main character is page_pool_dev_alloc_pages(9), and its whole thing is literally page_pool_dev_alloc_pages - allocate a page. That’s it. That’s the vibe. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

The signature is giving kernel-core, and it’s exactly this:

struct page * page_pool_dev_alloc_pages (struct page_pool *pool );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• pool — the pool from which to allocate. One argument, bestie. Hand over the pool and let it cook. 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Get a page from the page allocator or page_pool caches. No cap, that’s the whole description — the page comes from one of those two spots. ✨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

The extended universe is right here, and yes, you should absolutely go browse:

• Kernel file ./include/net/page_pool/helpers.h page_pool allocator(9)
• page_pool_dev_alloc_frag(9)
• page_pool_dev_alloc(9)
• page_pool_dev_alloc_va(9)
• page_pool_get_dma_dir(9)
• page_pool_fragment_page(9)
• page_pool_put_page(9)
• page_pool_put_full_page(9)
• page_pool_recycle_direct(9)
• page_pool_free_va(9)
• page_pool_get_dma_addr(9)
• page_pool_dma_sync_for_cpu(9)
• page_pool_is_unreadable(9)

Okay that’s the whole page, bestie! Cute sign-off time: this came from source/version ./include/net/page_pool, dated October 2026, and it’s the page_pool_dev_alloc_pages(9) manual page. Mwah 💋💖