rtas_work_area_free(9)

💅 rtas_work_area_free(9) — the Kernel API Manual page, bestie edition

okay so you're in the Kernel API Manual and this is rtas_work_area_free(9), which is literally the "ok we're done here, give it back" function 💖 she's short, she's sweet, she's the cleanup crew.

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✨ NAME ✨

rtas_work_area_free — release a work area 🎀

No cap, that's the whole job. She frees things. That's her whole personality and honestly? Iconic.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void rtas_work_area_free (struct rtas_work_area *area );

Look at her. Returns void — she doesn't even need to tell you how it went, she just does it and leaves. main character energy fr fr 👑

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• area — the work area descriptor, and listen, it has to be one that came back from rtas_work_area_alloc. Like, the exact one. Don't be out here inventing descriptors, bestie, that's not the vibe 😭

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

So basically: this returns a work area buffer to the pool. That's it. That's the function. She hands the buffer back to the pool like a good friend returning your hoodie 🫶

No drama, no extra steps, no "also it does X if you pass Y" — nope, just a clean handoff back to the pool. Periodt.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• the Kernel file ./arch/powerpc/include/asm/rtas-work-area.h — go read the header, she has lore 💀
• struct rtas_work_area(9) — the descriptor situation itself
• rtas_work_area_alloc(9) — the one who actually gives you the area, so like, obviously go meet her first 🌈

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💀 real talk: the area you pass in comes from rtas_work_area_alloc, and this page says so twice, so like — don't skip that part, iykyk.

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⭐ okay that's the page!! this one's from ./arch/powerpc/include/asm, dated October 2026, and it's a rtas_work_area_free(9) moment — go free your work areas responsibly, bestie, ily, bye!! 🧚💖✨