page_pool_dev_alloc_va(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 page_pool_dev_alloc_va — the kernel API manual, bestie edition ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to page_pool_dev_alloc_va(9) — yes that's the whole name, yes it's a mouthful, no we're not shortening it, it's iconic as is 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

page_pool_dev_alloc_va — allocate a page or a page fragment and hand you back its va. That's it. That's the whole job. slay 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void * page_pool_dev_alloc_va (struct page_pool *pool , unsigned int
*size );

literally just those two args. no cap. 🦋

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

  • pool — the pool you're allocating from. your source of pages, your main character, the whole vibe 🌈
  • size — in as the requested size, out as the allocated size. it's giving double duty — you tell it what you want goin' in, it tells you what you actually got comin' out 💅

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so like, this function? it's just a thin wrapper around the page_pool_alloc API. that's the whole tea. ☕

it returns the va of the allocated page or page fragment — which is exactly what you'd expect from a thing called page_pool_dev_alloc_va, and honestly? we love a function that does what it says on the tin. periodt 🔥

⭐ RETURN ⭐

you get the va for the allocated page or page fragment 🎀

and if it can't? it returns NULL. so uh, check that, bestie 😭 don't just rawdog the pointer, fr fr 🙈

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

like. the whole page_pool cinematic universe. go read all of 'em, iykyk 📚✨

okay that's the page!! this little love letter lives in ./include/net/page_pool and it's dated October 2026 — and it's for page_pool_dev_alloc_va(9) obviously 💜 mwah, go allocate something cute, ily, bye!! 🫶

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