softleaf_to_page(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, this is softleaf_to_page(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and it obtains the struct page for the PFN encoded within a leaf entry. that's literally the whole gig. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct page * softleaf_to_page (softleaf_t entry );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• entry — leaf entry. important vibe check: softleaf_has_pfn(entry) must return true. no exceptions, fr fr. 🫶

🦋 RETURN 🦋

you get back a pointer (struct page *) to the struct page associated with the leaf entry's PFN. that's it, iconic behavior only. 💖

💖 SEE ALSO 💖

go check out the Kernel file ./include/linux/leafops.h plus the whole squad:

• 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_is_marker(9)
• softleaf_to_marker(9)
• softleaf_has_pfn(9)
• softleaf_to_pfn(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)

that's the whole page, bestie 💅 source/version: ./include/linux; date: October 2026. mwah 🫶