vmballoon_inflate(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

hiii bestie 💖 welcome to vmballoon_inflate(9), a page from the Kernel API Manual — manual name folded in right here at the top like a little name tag 🎀.

vmballoon_inflate — inflate the balloon towards its target size. That's the whole assignment, no cap 💅.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

okay so the signature is literally this, character for character:

void vmballoon_inflate (struct vmballoon *b );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• b — pointer to the balloon. that's the one and only argument, bestie 🫶

💅 SEE ALSO 💅

the original page sends you to the kernel file ./drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c plus this whole iconic friend group of related pages — all of these, fr fr:

• enum vmballoon_cmd_type(9)
• struct vmballoon_batch_entry(9)
• vmballoon_send_guest_id(9)
• vmballoon_page_order(9)
• vmballoon_page_in_frames(9)
• vmballoon_mark_page_offline(9)
• vmballoon_mark_page_online(9)
• vmballoon_send_get_target(9)
• vmballoon_alloc_page_list(9)
• vmballoon_handle_one_result(9)
• vmballoon_status_page(9)
• vmballoon_lock_op(9)
• vmballoon_add_page(9)
• vmballoon_lock(9)
• vmballoon_release_page_list(9)
• vmballoon_change(9)
• vmballoon_enqueue_page_list(9)
• vmballoon_dequeue_page_list(9)
• vmballoon_split_refused_pages(9)
• vmballoon_deflate(9)
• vmballoon_deinit_batching(9)
• vmballoon_init_batching(9)
• vmballoon_vmci_init(9)
• vmballoon_pop(9)
• vmballoon_work(9)
• vmballoon_shrinker_scan(9)
• vmballoon_shrinker_count(9)
• vmballoon_debug_show(9)
• vmballoon_migratepage(9)

okay bye bestie 🫶 this page comes from the source/version ./drivers/misc, dated October 2026, and it's literally vmballoon_inflate(9) — mwah 💋✨