cvm_oct_fill_hw_memory(9)

💖 cvm_oct_fill_hw_memory 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the kernel API manual ✨ this one's a function page for cvm_oct_fill_hw_memory — yes that's a whole mouthful, i know, just vibe with it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

cvm_oct_fill_hw_memory — fill a hardware pool with memory. that's it. that's the whole job. iconic honestly 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int cvm_oct_fill_hw_memory (struct platform_device *pdev , int pool ,
       int size , int elements );

like look at her. four args, returns an int, no cap 🔥

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• pdev — the platform device, and she's here purely for logging purposes. main character energy but for log messages 💜
• pool — which pool we're populating. pick your girl 🦋
• size — the size of each buffer in the pool, so every buffer knows exactly how much room it gets 🌸
• elements — how many buffers to allocate. the count. the number. the amount 🎯

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🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

okay so the whole thing: it returns the actual number of buffers allocated. like, the real number, fr fr — not necessarily the number you asked for, the number you got 💀 so maybe check it, iykyk ✨

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Kernel file ./drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-mem.c — go read the source bestie, she's right there 📂
• cvm_oct_fill_hw_skbuff(9) 🔥
• cvm_oct_free_hw_skbuff(9) 🫶
• cvm_oct_free_hw_memory(9) 💖

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ngl the free functions are right there in see-also for a reason — what you fill, you eventually gotta free. balance. 🌈

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aaand that's the page!! this lil beauty lives in ./drivers/staging/octeon, dated October 2026, and it's part of the cvm_oct_fill_hw_memory(9) manual page itself, mwah 💋 go forth and populate your pools, bestie 🎀✨⭐