tlb_gather_mmu(9)

💅 tlb_gather_mmu — kernel API manual energy ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to tlb_gather_mmu, straight out of the Kernel API Manual. this is the little function that gets your page-table teardown started. it's giving backstage-pass-to-the-MMU vibes, and honestly? iconic.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

tlb_gather_mmu — initialize an mmu_gather structure for page-table tear-down 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void tlb_gather_mmu (struct mmu_gather *tlb , struct mm_struct *mm );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• tlb — the mmu_gather structure you're about to initialize. this is the one getting set up, she's the main character here 👑
• mm — the mm_struct of the target address space. like, which address space are we tearing down, bestie? this one 💖

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so you call this to initialize an (on-stack) mmu_gather structure for page-table tear-down from mm. yes, on-stack — she lives on the stack, no cap. it's the setup step, the pre-game, the "get ready with me" of MMU teardown ✨

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file ./mm/mmu_gather.c — the literal home of this whole situation, iykyk
• tlb_flush_rmaps(9)
• tlb_remove_table_sync_rcu(9)
• tlb_gather_mmu_fullmm(9)
• tlb_gather_mmu_vma(9)
• tlb_finish_mmu(9) — the one that wraps it all up, we love a closer 💅

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ngl this one's short and sweet — but every option, arg and reference is right here, fr fr. go read the SEE ALSOs, they ate 🌈

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that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 source is ./mm, dated October 2026, and it's tlb_gather_mmu(9) all the way down. slay, stay hydrated, and may your gathers always finish 💜🧚‍♀️