bman_release(9)

🦋 bman_release(9) 🦋

okay bestie, this page is from the Kernel API Manual, and it's all about bman_release — releasing buffer(s) back to the buffer pool. iconic behavior, honestly 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

bman_release — release buffer(s) to the buffer pool 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int bman_release (struct bman_pool *pool , const struct bm_buffer *bufs
, u8 num );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• pool — the buffer pool object you're releasing to, bestie 🫶
• bufs — an array of buffers to release ✨
• num — the number of buffers in bufs, and the range is literally (1-8) 💅

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so what this does: it adds the given buffers to RCR entries. that's the whole main-character move 🌈

bestie, if the RCR ring is unresponsive, the function will return -ETIMEDOUT 😭

otherwise? it returns zero. slay ✅

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./include/soc/fsl/bman.h bman_new_pool(9), bman_free_pool(9), bman_get_bpid(9), bman_acquire(9), bman_is_probed(9), bman_portals_probed(9) 🦋

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and that's the whole vibe 💜 this page's source/version is ./include/soc/fsl, dated October 2026, and yes bestie it's bman_release(9) — mwah 🫶✨