FIELD_GET_SIGNED(9)

🌸 FIELD_GET_SIGNED(9) 🌸

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🎀 NAME 🎀

FIELD_GET_SIGNED — extract a signed bitfield element ✨

💖 SYNOPSIS 💖

the call looks like this, fr fr:

FIELD_GET_SIGNED (mask , reg );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• mask — shifted mask defining the field's length and position 👑
• reg — value of entire bitfield 🫶

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

Returns the sign-extended field specified by _mask from the bitfield passed in as reg by masking and shifting it down. so yeah — masking, shifting down, sign-extended field, that's the whole main character moment 😭💖

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

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• Kernel file ./include/linux/bitfield.h
• FIELD_MAX(9)
• FIELD_FIT(9)
• FIELD_PREP(9)
• FIELD_PREP_CONST(9)
• FIELD_GET(9)
• FIELD_MODIFY(9)
• field_prep(9)
• field_get(9)

source/version situation: ./include/linux, date: October 2026, and the page is FIELD_GET_SIGNED(9) — byeee bestie, mwah 💋🫶