xen_free_ballooned_pages(9)

💖 xen_free_ballooned_pages(9) 💖

Okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual, bestie — today’s main character is xen_free_ballooned_pages, and she is here to hand pages back. 🫶 No cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

xen_free_ballooned_pages — return pages retrieved with get_ballooned_pages. That’s the whole plot: pages came from get_ballooned_pages, and this function is the “okay, return ticket time” moment. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Here’s the signature, literally copy-paste energy:

void xen_free_ballooned_pages (unsigned int nr_pages , struct page
**pages );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• nr_pages — Number of pages. Like, the headcount of pages we’re dealing with. 🔢
• pages — pages to return. The actual pages going back home. 🏠

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Kernel file ./drivers/xen/balloon.c — the lore lives here. 📖
• xen_alloc_ballooned_pages(9) — the related function bestie, go read it too. 👀

Signed from source/version ./drivers/xen, dated October 2026 — xen_free_ballooned_pages(9) out 💋✨