sk_wmem_alloc_get(9)

✨ sk_wmem_alloc_get(9) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the kernel API manual, this one's a little function called sk_wmem_alloc_get and honestly? she's short, she's sweet, she's giving "one-liner icon" 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

sk_wmem_alloc_get — returns write allocations 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int sk_wmem_alloc_get (const struct sock *sk );

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• sk — the socket 🧚 (yes that's the whole thing, she's a socket, that's her job)

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

sk_wmem_alloc minus initial offset of one 🔥

like, that's literally the math, no cap — take sk_wmem_alloc, subtract that initial offset of one, done, ship it ✨

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

okay this list is LONG, but we do not skip, we do not summarise, we read the whole group chat 💜 all of these live in the kernel file ./include/net/sock.h:

• struct sock_common(9)
• struct sock(9)
• sk_user_data_is_nocopy(9)
• __locked_read_sk_user_data_with_flags(9)
• __rcu_dereference_sk_user_data_with_flags(9)
• sk_for_each_entry_offset_rcu(9)
• SOCK_CONNECT_BIND(9)
• lock_sock_fast(9)
• unlock_sock_fast(9)
• sk_rmem_alloc_get(9)
• sk_has_allocations(9)
• skwq_has_sleeper(9)
• sock_poll_wait(9)
• sk_page_frag(9)
• _sock_tx_timestamp(9)
• sk_eat_skb(9)

lowkey go read all of them, they're the friend group and they all slay in their own way 🌈

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 🫶 this icon comes to you from the ./include/net corner of the kernel, stamped October 2026 — so like, fresh, current, main character energy 👑 see you in the next manpage 💖

sk_wmem_alloc_get(9) 🌟