softleaf_is_marker(9)

okay so bestie, welcome to softleaf_is_marker(9) from the Kernel API Manual — this is the tiny vibe check that tells you whether a leaf entry is a marker entry. no cap, that’s the whole mission 💅✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

softleaf_is_marker — is this leaf entry a marker? 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

it’s giving “small signature, important answer”:

bool softleaf_is_marker (softleaf_t entry );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• entry — leaf entry. yep, that’s literally the whole input, bestie: you hand over a leaf entry and let the function do its little check 🫶

💖 RETURN 💖

true if the leaf entry is a marker entry, otherwise false. literally a yes/no situation, periodt 💀✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the kernel file is ./include/linux/leafops.h, and the whole friend group is right here:

• softleaf_mk_none(9)
• softleaf_from_pte(9)
• softleaf_to_pte(9)
• softleaf_from_pmd(9)
• softleaf_to_pmd(9)
• softleaf_is_none(9)
• softleaf_type(9)
• softleaf_is_swap(9)
• softleaf_is_migration_write(9)
• softleaf_is_migration_read(9)
• softleaf_is_migration_read_exclusive(9)
• softleaf_is_migration(9)
• softleaf_is_device_private_write(9)
• softleaf_is_device_private(9)
• softleaf_is_device_exclusive(9)
• softleaf_is_hwpoison(9)
• softleaf_to_marker(9)
• softleaf_has_pfn(9)
• softleaf_to_pfn(9)
• softleaf_to_page(9)
• softleaf_to_folio(9)
• softleaf_is_poison_marker(9)
• softleaf_is_guard_marker(9)
• softleaf_is_uffd_wp_marker(9)
• softleaf_is_migration_young(9)
• softleaf_is_migration_dirty(9)
• pte_is_marker(9)
• pte_is_uffd_wp_marker(9)
• pte_is_uffd_marker(9)
• pmd_is_device_private_entry(9)
• pmd_is_migration_entry(9)
• softleaf_is_valid_pmd_entry(9)
• pmd_is_valid_softleaf(9)
• pmd_to_softleaf_folio(9)

muah 💋 this page’s source/version is ./include/linux, dated October 2026, and it’s softleaf_is_marker(9) — bye bestie, go check those markers! 🫶🌈