pmap_growkernel(9)

pmap_growkernel9

Grow the kernel virtual address (kva) space

Usage

#include <sys/param.h>

#include <vm/vm.h>

#include <vm/pmap.h>

void

pmap_growkernel(vm_offset_t addr);

Overview

The pmap_growkernel() function grows the kernel virtual address space to the virtual address addr.

It will allocate more page entries if required.

Releases

54 releases since FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE; the text changed 33 times.

  1. 5.2–5.2.1
  2. 5.3–6.3
  3. 6.4
  4. 7.0
  5. 7.1
  6. 7.2
  7. 7.3
  8. 7.4
  9. 8.0
  10. 8.1
  11. 8.2
  12. 8.3
  13. 8.4
  14. 9.0
  15. 9.1
  16. 9.2
  17. 9.3
  18. 10.0
  19. 10.1
  20. 10.2
  21. 10.3
  22. 10.4
  23. 11.0
  24. 11.1
  25. 11.2
  26. 11.3
  27. 11.4
  28. 12.0
  29. 12.1
  30. 12.2
  31. 12.3
  32. 12.4
  33. 13.0–13.2
  34. 13.3–16.0

Authors

This manual page was written by Bruce M Simpson ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.