vmballoon_s...efused_pages(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 vmballoon_s...efused_pages(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ — yes the title got truncated in the header like an unsent text message, but the vibe is intact, promise. It's literally vmballoon_s...efused_pages(9), and we're about to get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

vmballoon_split_refused_pages — the one that splits the 2MB refused pages down to 4k 💅 no cap, that's the whole job.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void vmballoon_split_refused_pages (struct vmballoon_ctl *ctl );

that's it. that's the signature. copied exactly, character for character, because we do not play with code around here 🎀

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • ctl — a pointer to the struct vmballoon_ctl, which is the thing that defines the operation 👑 she's the main character, she holds the context, respect her.

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so here's the lore 🔥 — if inflation of 2MB pages was denied by the hypervisor, it's likely because of one or a few 4KB pages. rude, honestly. 😭

and here's the annoying part: those 2MB pages may just keep being allocated and then keep getting refused, over and over, like you texting someone who's never gonna reply 💀 to prevent that whole tragic cycle, this function splits the refused pages into 4KB pages and adds them into the prealloc_pages list 🌈 iconic behaviour, honestly. problem solved, periodt.

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

like, go read these next, bestie — iykyk 👑 first up, the Kernel file ./drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c, then:

that's all 29 of them, not one skipped, because we don't do half-finished reading lists around here 🍓

lowkey reminder: this lives in ./drivers/misc — that's the directory, bestie, don't go looking in the wrong folder 🙈

and that's the page!! mwah 💋 this little cutie comes to you from ./drivers/misc, dated October 2026, and it signs off as vmballoon_s...efused_pages(9) — same truncated queen energy as the header 🧚‍♀️💖 bye bestie, go split some pages!

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