softleaf_type(9)

okay so bestie, welcome to softleaf_type(9) from the Kernel API Manual — this is the page where we find out what kind of leaf entry we're dealing with, and honestly? iconic little detective behavior 💅✨

💖 NAME 💖

softleaf_type — identify the type of leaf entry. periodt 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

the signature is literally right here, no cap:

enum softleaf_type softleaf_type (softleaf_t entry );

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• entry — the leaf entry. that's the whole argument, bestie, she's simple and she knows it 🦋

🎀 RETURN 🎀

it gives you back the leaf entry type associated with entry — like, the type match-up is the entire point, and it ate 🔥

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

okay so the Kernel file is ./include/linux/leafops.h — go peek, iykyk — and the whole reference squad is:

• 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_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_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)

mwah 💋 — signing off from ./include/linux, dated October 2026; that's the source and the date, bestie, and this page is done 🎀🫶