vmballoon_release_page_list(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

vmballoon_release_page_list - Releases a page list

okay so bestie, you're on the vmballoon_release_page_list(9) page from the Kernel API Manual, and it's lowkey giving cleanup main character energy. 💅 The whole vibe is releasing a page list, and the details are right below — no cap. ✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

The signature is literally this, fr fr:

void vmballoon_release_page_list (struct list_head *page_list , int
       *n_pages , enum vmballoon_page_size_type page_size );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• page_list — list of pages to release. 🫶
• n_pages — pointer to the number of pages. 👑
• page_size — whether the pages in the list are 2MB (or else 4KB). 🌈

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Releases the list of pages and zeros the number of pages. That's the serve: the list gets released, and the number of pages gets zeroed. periodt. 💖

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

This is the friend group of related kernel stuff — every single ref, coming through, iykyk:

• Kernel file ./drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
• 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_change(9)
• vmballoon_enqueue_page_list(9)
• vmballoon_dequeue_page_list(9)
• vmballoon_split_refused_pages(9)
• vmballoon_inflate(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)

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okay that's the whole page, bestie — source/version is ./drivers/misc, date is October 2026, and it's the vmballoon_release_page_list(9) manual. mwah, go release those pages responsibly 💋✨