xa_load(9)

✨ xa_load(9) — Kernel API Manual ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to xa_load(9), straight out of the Kernel API Manual 💅 this is a teeny tiny little function and honestly? it's giving "short king" energy 👑 it does exactly one thing and it does it iconically.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

xa_load — Load an entry from an XArray. that's it. that's the whole job. no cap 🫶

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void * xa_load (struct xarray *xa , unsigned long index );

look at her. so simple. so slay. ✨

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• xa — the XArray, aka the little container you're digging around in 🗂️
• index — the index into that array, aka where exactly you're looking 👀

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💜 CONTEXT 💜

Any context. literally any. she's flexible like that 🧚 it takes and releases the RCU lock — yes, both, she handles it herself, main character behaviour fr fr 🔥

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💖 RETURN 💖

The entry at index in xa. that's what you get back. periodt. 💅

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

ngl this list is long — she has a LOT of friends 😭 and every single one of them is (9), and they all live in the kernel file ./lib/xarray.c 🍓

• xas_load(9)
• xas_nomem(9)
• xas_free_nodes(9)
• xas_create_range(9)
• xas_store(9)
• xas_get_mark(9)
• xas_set_mark(9)
• xas_clear_mark(9)
• xas_init_marks(9)
• xas_split_alloc(9)
• xas_split(9)
• xas_try_split_min_order(9)
• xas_try_split(9)
• xas_pause(9)
• xas_find(9)
• xas_find_marked(9)
• xas_find_conflict(9)
• __xa_erase(9)
• xa_erase(9)
• __xa_store(9)
• xa_store(9)
• __xa_cmpxchg(9)
• __xa_insert(9)
• xa_store_range(9)
• xas_get_order(9)
• xa_get_order(9)
• __xa_alloc(9)
• __xa_alloc_cyclic(9)
• __xa_set_mark(9)
• __xa_clear_mark(9)
• xa_get_mark(9)
• xa_set_mark(9)
• xa_clear_mark(9)
• xa_find(9)
• xa_find_after(9)
• xa_extract(9)
• xa_delete_node(9)
• xa_destroy(9)

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and that's the whole page bestie, go load some entries 🫶

💌 cute little sign-off: this one's filed under ./lib, dated October 2026 — iykyk 🎀✨