zs_create_pool(9)

💖 NAME 💖

zs_create_pool — Creates an allocation pool to work from. ✨

welcome to the Kernel API Manual, bestie! this is the zs_create_pool(9) page, and it's giving “make your pool before you do literally anything else with zsmalloc” energy 👑

🧚 SYNOPSIS 🧚

struct zs_pool * zs_create_pool (const char *name );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• name — the pool name to be created. you're naming your little allocation pool, cute 🎀

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

okay so literally first things first: this function must be called before anything when you're using the zsmalloc allocator. not later, not whenever, before anything. periodt 💅

On success, a pointer to the newly created pool is returned. otherwise? you get NULL. that's the vibe check 😭

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./mm/zsmalloc.c — go check out obj_to_location(9), location_to_obj(9), zs_lookup_class_index(9), zs_huge_class_size(9), and zs_malloc(9) 🫶

signed off from ./mm, October 2026, page zs_create_pool(9) — mwah 💖💅