pte_free_kernel(9)

Hiii bestie 💖 this is pte_free_kernel(9), straight out of the Kernel API Manual — we're doing kernel page-table memory today, periodt ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

Okay so pte_free_kernel is literally about freeing PTE-level kernel page table memory 💅 No cap, that's the whole vibe of this one.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void pte_free_kernel (struct mm_struct *mm , pte_t *pte );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• mm — the mm_struct of the current context 🫶
• pte — pointer to the memory containing the page table 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Go read these next, iykyk 👑 The kernel file <green>./include/asm-generic/pgalloc.h</green> points you at:

• __pte_alloc_one_kernel(9)
• pte_alloc_one_kernel(9)
• __pte_alloc_one(9)
• pte_alloc_one(9)
• pte_free(9)
• pmd_alloc_one(9)
• pud_alloc_one(9)

That's the page, bestie 💜 source/version: ./include/asm-generic, dated October 2026. Mwah 🫶✨