crypto_engine_start(9)

💖 crypto_engine_start(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for crypto_engine_start — yes, that's a real function in section 9 of the manual and yes, we're gonna get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

crypto_engine_start — start the hardware engine 🔥

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int crypto_engine_start (struct crypto_engine *engine );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• engine — the hardware engine that needs to be started. like, that's the one, that's the engine, go start it 💅

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⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

Return 0 on success, else on fail.

that's literally it. that's the whole description. iconic minimalism, no notes 🫶

ngl bestie, the manpage does not elaborate any further — so don't go inventing extra behaviour in your head, mmkay? 0 means success, anything else means it didn't slay 😭

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./crypto/crypto_engine.c

• crypto_finalize_request(9)
• crypto_pump_requests(9)
• crypto_transfer_request(9)
• crypto_transfer_request_to_engine(9)
• crypto_transfer_aead_request_to_engine(9)
• crypto_transfer_akcipher_request_to_engine(9)
• crypto_transfer_hash_request_to_engine(9)
• crypto_transfer_kpp_request_to_engine(9)
• crypto_transfer_skcipher_request_to_engine(9)
• crypto_finalize_aead_request(9)
• crypto_finalize_akcipher_request(9)
• crypto_finalize_hash_request(9)
• crypto_finalize_kpp_request(9)
• crypto_finalize_skcipher_request(9)
• crypto_engine_stop(9)
• crypto_engine_alloc_init_and_set(9)
• crypto_engine_alloc_init(9)
• crypto_engine_exit(9)

like, the whole crypto engine friend group fr fr — go click around, there's lore in every one of them 🌈

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sign-off moment 🧚

this lil beauty lives in the kernel source tree at ./crypto, dated October 2026, and it's the crypto_engine_start(9) page — that's the whole footer, we're not skipping it, we're just making it cute 💜

kk bye bestie, go start that engine, periodt 💅✨🍓